This casebook comprehensively covers Article 9 with a fresh, practical, rich mixture of explanatory text, cases, and problems supporting a variety of teaching and learning styles. Obligingly, statutes are reprinted at almost every place in the book when and where they are referenced. There is no need to hunt in or outside the book for the applicable UCC or other statutory provisions. Problems include actual, recent bar examination questions that are interspersed throughout the book for comprehensive review. All in all, the book covers everything basically important in secured transactions and does so in ways and means that can easily accommodate most teachers' interests and styles.
Practice Under Article 9 of the UCC is a comprehensive guide for lawyers facilitating secured transactions. It includes: articles that in simple, clear language describe and summarize all of revised Article 9; more than a dozen charts that provide vital guidance to practitioners on such things as how to obtain and maintain perfection Article 9's confusing anti-assignment rules, foreign filing systems, federal statutory liens; the full text and commentary of revised Articles 1 and 9, including the most recent technical amendments; the PEB Commentaries that remain relevant to the interpretation of Article 9; a selected bibliography of useful articles on Article 9 and secured transactions practice.
Mastering Secured Transactions is a comprehensive resource for studying the sections of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Because the book covers virtually all sections of Article 9, it will be useful as a study aid for a law school course on Secured Transactions or Commercial Law and for a bar examination. It offers a clear and understandable discussion of the sections and concepts of Article 9 and includes abundant examples that elucidate the concepts. The discussion examines every aspect of a secured transaction including the scope of Article 9, attachment and perfection of a security interest, priority among competing security interests, default, choice-of-law rules, and assignment of rights. The chapters of the book are arranged to follow the organization of Article 9, making it easy for the reader to focus on particular concepts or study the book from cover to cover.
This casebook comprehensively covers Article 9 with a fresh, practical, rich mixture of explanatory text, cases, and problems supporting a variety of teaching and learning styles. Obligingly, statutes are reprinted at almost every place in the book when and where they are referenced. There is no need to hunt in or outside the book for the applicable UCC or other statutory provisions. Problems include actual, recent bar examination questions that are interspersed throughout the book for comprehensive review. All in all, the book covers everything basically important in secured transactions and does so in ways and means that can easily accommodate most teachers' interests and styles.
Brief History of the Uniform Commercial Code; The Security Agreement; Perfection; priorities; Proceeds; Rights of Lien Creditors, Including the Trustee in Bankruptcy; Fixtures; Multistate Transactions; Default; A Simple Security Agreement: Form and Content.
This revised and up-to-date (including the 2010 Amendments) treatment of UCC Article 9 utilizes both diagrams and questions uniquely designed to focus the student's attention on the operative facts that determine the application of the relevant code sections. The diagrams and accompanying commentary make plain what it is that each party to a secured transaction is attempting to accomplish or, in some instances, has failed to accomplish. Cases are edited and dissected using those diagrams and questions in order to both assist analysis of and navigate among relevant code sections. Appendix A contains a "road map" allowing the student to approach Article 9 analytically. A newly added appendix deals with the relationship between Article 9 and Agricultural Liens. A revised faculty manual is available.
A comprehensive index to Revised Article 9. With chapters written by Steven O. Weise, the ABA advisor to the Revised Article 9 Drafting Committee, and Edwin E Smith, a member of the Drafting Committee, you'll gain an insider's perspective on comparisons of the rules.
The premier authority on secured transactions, Secured Transactions: A Systems Approach is known for its cutting-edge coverage, dynamic pedagogy, and ease of use for instructors. The Systems Approach gives students the big picture. Straightforward explanations and cases prepare the students to solve real-life problems in the context of actual transactions. A modular structure allows for tremendous flexibility in course design. The materials are divided into bite-sized assignments, making it easier for instructors to make and adjust assignments for class. This problem-based casebook supports the teaching of Article 9 alone or expansion of the course to include Article 9 in the full context of bankruptcy, mortgages, judicial liens, and statutory liens. New to the 9th Edition: Updated throughout, while retaining the same structure. Highly adaptable modular text broken into assignments. Main sections can be taught in any order. New cases throughout (including the Second Circuit’s landmark decision in In re Motors Liquidation). Problem-based approach with ethics integrated. Problems progress from easy to difficult. Professors and students will benefit from: Comprehensive Teacher’s Manual with suggestions for teaching coverage, changes from the prior edition, lists of key concepts for each assignment, and the answers to every question asked in the book. The main sections can be taught in any order. Bite-sized assignments organized for 50-minute or 75-minute classes. Can support ABA-qualified experiential courses. Casebook authors who are happy to engage with adopters and include them as characters in the book. Coverage of non-Article 9 aspects of secured transactions that students will need as lawyers Default problem sets for ease of assignment; extra problems for variety from year to year. Engaging problems with interesting characters and real-world issues, providing all of the information necessary to solve the problems. A real-life approach that prepares students for the practice of law. Clear explanations of every subject – no hiding of the ball. Basic financial literacy information included throughout the book. Focus on how lien systems actually work in practice.
The core of this law school casebook is an extensive set of hypothetical problems designed to force students to come to grips with Article 9 provisions directly, assuming that the student has just been hired as a junior in-house counsel for a mythical bank holding company. It then takes the student through the series of problems generated by various lending subsidiaries. The tone is light, with recurring characters, and footnotes which include the necessary Code citations and case citations to supplement the included materials. This book is intended for teachers who want an in depth treatment of Article 9, believe Article 9 need not be drudgery either for students or instructors, and have a sense of humor. The new edition adds some new problems and text and includes a substantial number of recent cases and secondary sources to the footnotes that will help students both answer the problems and extend their understanding of the concepts being covered.
This is an introduction to the law governing security interests in personal property, which is based on Article 9 of the UCC. This book explains terminology, structure, and methodology of security interests governed by Article 9 in a concise and yet thorough manner. Practitioners can use the book to become conversant with the scope, concepts, and structure of Article 9 and how security interests are created, priority is established and remedies are pursued upon default.
