Secured Transactions Under the Uniform Commercial Code

James P. Nehf is Professor of Law and Cleon H. Foust Fellow at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. Before joining the Indiana faculty, he was a partner in a law firm in Washington, D.C., and clerked for the Hon. Phyllis A. Kravitch on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Prof. Nehf has been teaching Secured Transactions, Commercial Paper, Contracts, and Consumer Law at Indiana and other law schools for more than twenty years. He speaks frequently on contract law, the Uniform Commercial Code, consumer finance, and information privacy and serves on the Executive Board of the International Consumer Law Association. He was the inaugural director of the European Law Program at Indiana University and has held several university administrative positions, including a term as director of the Indiana University Center on Southeast Asia. He is the principle author and editor of a leading commercial law treatise, Secured Transactions Under the Uniform Commercial Code, the author of a revised edition of Corbin on Contracts (Impossibility), the author of a book on privacy law and policy, Open Book: The Failed Promise of Information Privacy in America, and numerous other book chapters and articles on commercial law, consumer finance, privacy law, low–income consumer transactions, and international/comparative law subjects. He also serves on the editorial board for the Markets and Law Series at Ashgate Publishing.

Julian B. McDonnell is the John A Sibley Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. A graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, Professor McDonnell has been a member of the Georgia law faculty since 1972 except for visiting appointments at the Universities of Texas, Utah and Puerto Rico. He was the principal draftsman of the Georgia Financial Institutions Code and the reporter for the Georgia Article 9 revision. Professor McDonnell began working with Peter F. Coogan on Matthew Bender's Secured Transactions Under the Uniform Commercial Code in 1978. He has served as editor-in-chief since Mr. Coogan's death in 1985. Professor McDonnell is also co-author (with Elizabeth Coleman) of Matthew Bender's Commercial and Consumer Warranties and is the author of numerous law review articles. He lectured on U.S. commercial law to the Bar of Brussels, Belgium in 1989 and 1993.