Security Interests in Personal Property: Cases, Problems and Materials (University Casebook Series),   ISBN:9781566629492

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This is far and away the worst casebook I have had for any class in three years of law school. It's a misnomer to call it a "casebook" even: we must have only read half a dozen cases out of it. The vast majority of the book is nothing but rambling author-written problems that do nothing to explicate the subject material. Secured Transactions is a statutory class: if it were practical simply to read Article 9 and know the answers to complex problems, you wouldn't need a class! No, you take a class in it because Article 9 is gibberish. So a textbook that does nothing but ask "what does Article 9 say?" over and over and over again is not helpful. I say this as someone who appreciates the casebook method and doesn't mind that most of my law texts have been nothing but cases and unanswered follow-up questions. An actual casebook would have been useful. A book of nothing but the questions with no cases to go with them---what this practically is---is not helpful.

Just to add insult to injury, the book is poorly printed and organized, and the cases that actually are in the book have been subjected to some of the most bizarre and unnecessary editing I've ever seen. All in all, this is a legendarily terrible academic resource. If you're taking a secured transactions class, get West's Hornbook Series text on the UCC.