NextGen Bar study guide
NextGen Bar · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The NextGen UBE is the National Conference of Bar Examiners' bar examination that succeeds the legacy Uniform Bar Examination. NCBE describes the legacy UBE as "administered through February 2028," with the NextGen UBE positioned as the going-forward exam for candidates seeking admission to a state bar. The NextGen Bar study guide has 11 sections and about 3,358 words.
01Civil Procedure
Every Civil Procedure question starts with two gates. Subject-matter jurisdiction: federal question under §1331, diversity under §1332 (complete diversity plus more than $75,000 in controversy), and supplemental jurisdiction under §1367.
331 words, about 2 min02Constitutional Law
Standing requires injury in fact, causation, and redressability; generalized grievances and most taxpayer suits fail. Ripeness, mootness (with exceptions for capable-of-repetition and voluntary cessation), and the political question doctrine screen the rest.
314 words, about 2 min03Contracts
Offer, acceptance, consideration, and no applicable defense. An offer must be sufficiently definite; advertisements are generally invitations to deal.
302 words, about 2 min04Criminal Law
A crime requires a voluntary act (or a legal duty to act), mens rea, concurrence, causation, and the prohibited result. The MPC mental states are purposely, knowingly, recklessly, and negligently; at common law, malice and specific intent do the work.
317 words, about 2 min05Evidence
Evidence is relevant if it has any tendency to make a material fact more or less probable. Rule 403 excludes relevant evidence whose probative value is substantially outweighed by unfair prejudice, confusion, waste, or delay.
298 words, about 1 min06Real Property
Fee simple absolute, life estate, and defeasible fees (fee simple determinable with possibility of reverter; fee simple subject to condition subsequent with right of entry; fee simple subject to executory limitation). Remainders are vested or contingent.
311 words, about 2 min07Torts
Battery requires intent to cause harmful or offensive contact plus the contact; assault requires apprehension of imminent contact; false imprisonment requires confinement. Trespass to land and chattels, conversion, and intentional infliction of emotional distress (extreme and outrageous conduct producing severe distress) complete the family.
308 words, about 2 min08Business Associations
Agency requires consent, benefit to the principal, and control. Authority may be actual (express or implied), apparent (based on the principal's manifestations to a third party), or conferred by ratification.
294 words, about 1 min09Conflict of Laws
Traditional vested-rights analysis applies the law of the place of injury. Modern approaches are interest analysis, the most significant relationship test (Restatement §6), and better law.
310 words, about 2 min10Family Law
A valid marriage requires capacity, a license, and solemnization, or compliance with common-law marriage elements (capacity, present agreement, cohabitation, reputation). Putative-spouse doctrines protect good-faith parties when a marriage proves invalid.
301 words, about 2 min11Trusts and Estates
A valid will requires testamentary capacity, intent, signature, and two attesting witnesses, or compliance with holographic-will rules where recognized. Revocation may occur by physical act, by subsequent instrument, or by operation of law (such as divorce).
272 words, about 1 min