Links & Resources

Spotlight Columns

Spotlight is a regular column in the joint newsletter of the UCC and Commercial Finance Committees of the American Bar Association. Its purpose is to highlight recent judicial decisions that improperly interpret or apply the Uniform Commercial Code, in the hope that other courts will avoid the same analytical mistakes. Copies of the full newsletter are available here.

• Spotlight -- Oct. 2009 (pdf)
• Spotlight -- June 2009 (pdf)
• Spotlight -- Jan. 2009 (pdf)
• Spotlight -- Oct. 2008 (pdf)
• Spotlight -- July 2008 (pdf)
• Spotlight -- Mar. 2008 (pdf)
• Spotlight -- Dec. 2007 Special Edition (pdf)
• Spotlight -- Dec. 2007 (pdf
• Spotlight -- July 2007 (pdf))
• Spotlight -- Mar. 2007 (pdf)
• Spotlight -- Dec. 2006 (pdf)

Annual Commercial Law Updates

These files contain brief descriptions of many of the year's most significant commercial law cases.

• 2008 (pdf)
• 2007 (pdf)
• 2006 (pdf)
• 2005 (pdf)

Article 9 Revisions

In summer 2008, the sponsors of the Uniform Commercial Code created a new Joint Review Committee for Article 9 of the UCC. The Joint Review Committee is charged with addressing the 40 or so issues identified in the report of an earlier study group. A copy of the study report and memoranda on the deliberations  of the Joint Review Committee are below.

• Meeting Notes Sept. 2009 (pdf)
• Joint Review Committee Notes Mar. 2009 (pdf)
• Joint Review Committee Notes Feb. 2009 (pdf)
• Joint Review Committee Meeting Notes Oct. 2008 (pdf)
• Study Group Report June 2008 (pdf)

Payments Project

In the summer of 2008, the Uniform Law Commission created the Study Committee on Payment Issues. This new study committee is charged with: (i) monitoring developments at the federal level, particularly with respect to the Federal Reserve Board, Treasury Department, and Congress, concerning the regulation of financial institutions and payment systems; (ii) representing the Uniform Law Commission before those entities; (iii) presenting the advantages of maintaining a balance of state and federal regulation in these areas; and (iv) making appropriate recommendations concerning possible ULC, or joint ULC/ALI, projects in these areas.

Documents prepared by the Study Committee on Payment Issues are listed here:

• Memo Oct. 2009 (pdf)
• White Paper on Issues Under UCC Articles 3 and 4 Mar. 2009 (pdf)
• Study Committee 2009 Agenda Feb. 2009 (pdf)
• Issues List Nov. 2008 (pdf)
• Position Paper Mar. 2008 (pdf)

Legal Organizations

• ABA Business Law Section
• American Bankruptcy Institute
• American Law Institute
• Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys
• Commercial Finance Association
• Equipment Leasing Association
• IACA
• ICC
• Legal Opinion Resource Center
  
• Permanent Editorial Board of the UCC
• UNCITRAL
• UNIDROIT
• Uniform Law Commission
• Uniform Law Conference of Canada
• U.S. Trustee Program
• U.S. Bankruptcy Courts

Filing Offices

• FAA Aircraft Registry
• U.S. Copyright Office
• State UCC Records

Forms

• Bankruptcy Forms
• IRS Forms

Information

• Archive of Uniform Laws, Final Acts & Drafts    (Univ. Penn)
• Articles about UCC Article 9
• CISG Database   (Pace Univ.)
  
• ContractsProf Blog
• Legal Information Institute   (Cornell Univ.)
• Repoland
• UCC Blog

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