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Secured Transaction: A Systems Approach
Buy a new version of this Connected Casebook and receive access to the online e-book , practice questions from your favorite study aids, and an outline tool on CasebookConnect, the all in one learning solution for law school students. CasebookConnect offers you what you need most to be successful in your law school classes portability, meaningful feedback, and greater efficiency. The premier authority on relationships and transactions between creditors and debtors, Secured A Systems Approach is known for its cutting edge coverage, dynamic pedagogy and ease of use for instructors. Applying the Systems Approach, students learn how the law is applied in real life as they examine the code in the context of actual transactions. Compelling problems are introduced with straightforward explanations and cases, making the concepts easy to teach. A modular structure allows for tremendous flexibility in course design, and through its organization around assignment units, instructors can easily prepare work for their students. This problem-based casebook presents a thorough review of the intersection of secured transactions and bankruptcy and is accompanied by a comprehensive Teachers Manual. The Seventh With completely updated cases, statutes, and rules, the Seventh Edition presents the 2010 Amendments to Article 9. Improving on the hallmark flexibility in teaching, many assignments have been recast into two parts, allowing instructors to now assign one-and-a half units for 75-minute classes. Problems have been refreshed and revised, and the text has been thoroughly scrutinized for accuracy. An updated Teacher s Manual accompanies this edition and will be matched with a revised, comprehensive set of PowerPoint presentations in the spring of 2012. The Seventh
721 pages, Hardcover
Published October 16, 2015
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April 25, 2022
Only adding this one to good reads because I read it cover to cover. Who knew commercial law could be so interesting?!
December 19, 2020
The best law textbook I've read. Probably the best textbook I've ever read, period. It not only saved me from completely flunking a class, but sparked my interest in an area of law I hadn't previously considered. It was good enough that I chose to finish the unassigned portions of the book after the semester finished.
First, some context:
My professor was junk. He jumped from topic to topic at random. He assigned no readings, but then 6 readings at random. His stories were mainly unhelpful. He would "review" the problems by spitballing half an answer, but then move onto more random lecturing without finishing them.
The UCC is junk. While it is more comprehensive and consistent compared to other statutes I've read (the Internal Revenue Code is, in every sense, a monster), I still found the UCC hard to understand without outside context.
My own study habits were junk. In every semester, I end up triaging my energy and study time to the most immediate-need classes. I assigned SecTran to nonpriority. After placing it on the back burner most times during the semester (and with a professor who randomly stoked the front flames), I had to read furiously to catch up.
Enter this textbook.
It teaches the most important concepts in secured transactions and bankruptcy clearly, step-by-step, with plenty of insightful examples, and with legitimate humor (I straight-up chortled at some of the jokes).
The writing itself is plain and clear. I only had to stop and reread a passage I didn't understand a few times. Every time a relatively complex topic is introduced, the authors provide an example that showcases the mechanics remarkably well. The authors make connections between the UCC sections to demonstrate how they work
Whenever the UCC doesn't make sense on its own, the authors bring in outside context to make itself understood. Cases primarily serve to underline the chapter's point rather than tasking you with searching through bad judge writing to extract the law.
The authors provide their views/criticisms, but it's couched. You know they're making an argument outside of the objective knowledge the reader must obtain. Their assessments seem reasonable or, at least, unobtrusive. The chapters actually build on themselves.
Most importantly for me, each assignment ends with practice problems that sufficiently tasked me with recalling what I read. Moreover, the problems required me to answer tough questions by extrapolating and reasoning from the assignment (ie some lawyer skills). While there is no answer key (a very frustrating aspect of my professor's lecturing style), the authors provide UCC cites at the end of each prompt. If I read those cites, I gathered enough of the answer to tell if I was right.
It also avoids other law textbook pitfalls: it does not ask vague philosophical questions a nonpractitioner could not possibly answer ("do you see why?" is a triggering phrase for me). It does not assume knowledge of outside areas of law. If a concept requires understanding of a property concept, the authors get in → explain the property concept quickly and succinctly → then return to the secured transaction narrative.
This has been one of the few textbooks that have added value to my law school experience. I will be keeping it (and perhaps rereading portions) in the future.
First, some context:
My professor was junk. He jumped from topic to topic at random. He assigned no readings, but then 6 readings at random. His stories were mainly unhelpful. He would "review" the problems by spitballing half an answer, but then move onto more random lecturing without finishing them.
The UCC is junk. While it is more comprehensive and consistent compared to other statutes I've read (the Internal Revenue Code is, in every sense, a monster), I still found the UCC hard to understand without outside context.
My own study habits were junk. In every semester, I end up triaging my energy and study time to the most immediate-need classes. I assigned SecTran to nonpriority. After placing it on the back burner most times during the semester (and with a professor who randomly stoked the front flames), I had to read furiously to catch up.
Enter this textbook.
It teaches the most important concepts in secured transactions and bankruptcy clearly, step-by-step, with plenty of insightful examples, and with legitimate humor (I straight-up chortled at some of the jokes).
The writing itself is plain and clear. I only had to stop and reread a passage I didn't understand a few times. Every time a relatively complex topic is introduced, the authors provide an example that showcases the mechanics remarkably well. The authors make connections between the UCC sections to demonstrate how they work
Whenever the UCC doesn't make sense on its own, the authors bring in outside context to make itself understood. Cases primarily serve to underline the chapter's point rather than tasking you with searching through bad judge writing to extract the law.
The authors provide their views/criticisms, but it's couched. You know they're making an argument outside of the objective knowledge the reader must obtain. Their assessments seem reasonable or, at least, unobtrusive. The chapters actually build on themselves.
Most importantly for me, each assignment ends with practice problems that sufficiently tasked me with recalling what I read. Moreover, the problems required me to answer tough questions by extrapolating and reasoning from the assignment (ie some lawyer skills). While there is no answer key (a very frustrating aspect of my professor's lecturing style), the authors provide UCC cites at the end of each prompt. If I read those cites, I gathered enough of the answer to tell if I was right.
It also avoids other law textbook pitfalls: it does not ask vague philosophical questions a nonpractitioner could not possibly answer ("do you see why?" is a triggering phrase for me). It does not assume knowledge of outside areas of law. If a concept requires understanding of a property concept, the authors get in → explain the property concept quickly and succinctly → then return to the secured transaction narrative.
This has been one of the few textbooks that have added value to my law school experience. I will be keeping it (and perhaps rereading portions) in the future.
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