Public Beta · Prototype Reference System

Core legal rules, statutes, and legal doctrines commonly tested on the Multistate Bar Examination and repeatedly encountered in legal practice.

Organized for orientation, review, and doctrinal clarity.

Core Legal Rules organizes foundational legal principles having a national scope in a navigable format designed for orientation, review, and doctrinal clarity. The goal is not merely to list rules, but to build an easily navigable structure of foundational legal doctrine, organized hierarchically and showing relationships among related doctrines so users can orient themselves conceptually within the law.

Under active development This public beta is a static reference prototype while authority review and database-backed navigation continue.

Browse the Rules How Rules Are Organized

Seven Subject Areas

The public navigation begins with core doctrinal subjects commonly encountered in law school, bar preparation, and early legal practice.

Civil Procedure Jurisdiction, pleadings, joinder, discovery, judgments, and appeals.
Constitutional Law Structure, powers, individual rights, equal protection, and due process.
Contracts Formation, performance, breach, remedies, and UCC Article 2 concepts.
Criminal Law and Procedure Crimes, defenses, searches, seizures, confessions, and trial rights.
Evidence Relevance, character evidence, impeachment, hearsay, privileges, and experts.
Real Property Estates, future interests, conveyancing, mortgages, and landlord-tenant law.
Torts Intentional torts, negligence, strict liability, products liability, and damages.

Scope

Coverage focuses primarily on federal procedural and evidentiary rules, constitutional doctrine, federal statutes commonly tested on the MBE, and broadly recognized common-law principles of contracts, torts, and real property.

The site is not intended to provide comprehensive jurisdiction-specific state law coverage. Where jurisdiction-specific rules matter, users should consult controlling local authority.

How Rules Are Structured

Rules are organized to make doctrine easier to locate, compare, and review. The structure favors clear relationships over isolated fragments, so related doctrines can be seen in context rather than as disconnected statements.

SubjectsBroad doctrinal areas used as the first level of navigation.
TopicsRelated rule families within a subject, such as jurisdiction, hearsay, negligence, or contract formation.
Core rulesPractical black-letter principles stated in concise, reviewable form.
Related rulesElements, exceptions, limitations, burdens, traps, and clarifications linked to the parent doctrine.

On Authority and Accuracy

Rule statements are organized with authority metadata where available, including federal rules, statutes, constitutional doctrine, common-law principles, and explanatory sources such as Cornell Wex. Coverage focuses primarily on foundational legal doctrine commonly encountered in law school and bar examination subjects. Authority review is ongoing, and users should verify controlling law before relying on any statement.

In Development

The public reference layer remains static for now while the rule database and review workflow continue to mature.

Visual memory aids
Structured doctrine maps
Authority and source tables
Relationship visualization tools
Guided issue spotting

What This Site Is Not

Not legal advice.
Not a legal encyclopedia.
Not a substitute for primary authority.