Spring 2025
Professor(s):
Jim Hawkins (FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Business and Commercial Law
Time: 10:30a-12:00p MW Location: 211
Course Outline: Because lenders are concerned with ensuring debtors repay them, a lot of lending only occurs if the debtor puts up some collateral for the loan. This course examines the law that governs these transactions--the law of secured financing--found in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. We will discuss how a lender obtains a security interest in a debtor's property, how a lender perfects its interest, and what happens when two lenders claim an interest in the same property. The course is taught using a problem-based approach.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments: Assignment 1: Case Book pages xxxi – xxxvii and 3 – 13. Complete problems 1.1 – 1.3.
Final Exam Schedule: 5/7/2025 9-12pm
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: Important (MEE)
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: Lynn M LoPucki, Elizabeth Warren, and Robert M Lawless, Secured Transactions: A Systems Approach (9th Edition (not 10th Edition)) (ISBN: 9781543804508); Elizabeth Warren, Bankruptcy and Article 9 (any recent edition), from Aspen Publishers (2024 ISBN: 9798892076661).
NOTE: 9th edition is out of print and digital versions of the casebook will only be available until end of 2024. The Bookstore may only be able to source limited copies so please check the resale market for copies or order yours early.
