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Problems and Materials on Secured Transactions

6th Edition
Stephen L. Sepinuck | Kara J. Bruce
ISBN: 9781685615406
Subject: Comml Law-Secured Trans
Format: Print & Electronic - Hardbound
Page Count: 614
Copyright: 2023 | Status: In Stock

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This book teaches students about secured transactions and the law that governs them, while simultaneously training students in the use and interpretation of statutes. Because of the focus on statutory interpretation, the book contains few judicial opinions. Instead, it contains 186 carefully sequenced problems for students to solve and which serve as the foundation for classroom discussion. The problems are preceded by textual discussion designed to help students understand the relevant statutory provisions and the transactions to which those provisions apply. Most of the problems require students to apply the law to specified facts but a few of the problems do the reverse: they challenge the students to describe a set of facts to which a statutory provision applies. Some other problems ask students to identify the reason underlying a rule and some ask students to draft language for an agreement or other plan a specified transaction. The book includes material addressing the 2022 UCC Amendments.

Accompanying the book are: (i) a website with links to electronic exercises; and (ii) multiple-choice quizzes, available through CasebookPlus™. Both the electronic exercises and the quizzes allow students to self-assess their understanding of the course material. The website also contains for teachers both a detailed teacher’s manual that provides an extensive analysis of each problem, PowerPoint slides that diagram most of the problems, and resources for using the book in distance-learning courses. The authors post supplements to the book and the teacher’s manual on the website at regular intervals.

For more information and additional teaching materials, visit the companion site.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: American Casebook Series
Publication Date: 07/25/2023

Stephen L. Sepinuck, Vanderbilt University Law School

Kara J. Bruce, University of North Carolina School of Law

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With CasebookPlus, you can customize your students’ learning experience and monitor their performance. The quiz editor allows you to create your own custom quiz set, suppress specific quiz questions or quiz sets, and time-release quiz questions. Additionally, the flexible, customized reporting capability helps you evaluate your students’ understanding of the material and can also help your school demonstrate compliance with the new ABA Assessment and Learning Outcomes standards.

The new sixth edition updates the prior edition to address the significant changes to the UCC made by the 2022 Amendments. Specifically, the revisions to the book:

(i) include a new section on transfers of and security interests in controllable electronic records (a term that includes cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens);
(ii) address the amended definition of chattel paper and the changes to the rules for perfecting a security interest chattel paper;
(iii) refer to how the Amendments overrule errant caselaw on several points.


The new edition also adds citations to dozens of recent cases and state statutes, adds six problems, and fine-tunes approximately 20 other problems. All of the electronic exercises accompanying the book have been revised.

Learn more about this series.