Fall 2025
Professor(s):
Douglas Moll (FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Business and Commercial Law
Time: 6:00p-7:30p MW Location: 310
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: Lopucki and Warren xxxi - xxxviii; 3 - 21. Be sure to work the problems on pages 19 – 21. We will discuss them during the first two class sessions.
During the first class, I will need to call on students for assistance with the problems. Thus, I expect you to make a good-faith attempt to answer the problems before class such that you can contribute to a productive (and efficient) class discussion.
Note: For the following class, we will finish the problems in assignment 1 and move on to assignment 2. (You are responsible for reading all of assignment 2, but you only need to work problem 2.1.) We might start assignment 3, and you are only responsible for problems 3.1, 3.5, and 3.6 in that assignment.
Final Exam Schedule: 12/8/2025 6:00:00 PM 310 311
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: Available
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: LoPucki, Warren, Lawless, Secured Transactions: A Systems Approach, 10th edition, Wolters Kluwer 2023 (ISBN: 9798889061991), and Warren, Bankruptcy and Article 9: 2024 Statutory Supplement, Aspen, ISBN: 9798892076661