Secured Transactions Law Reform

Louise Gullifer is Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Oxford.Orkun Akseli is Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at Durham University.

• 1. Introduction Louise GulliferPart I: Modernisation of the Law of Secured Transactions in Common and Mixed Law Jurisdictions2. An Outline of a Typical PPSA Scheme Hugh Beale3. An Historical Overview of UCC Article 9 Peter Winship4. Transplanting Article 9: The Canadian PPSA Experience Catherine Walsh5. Current Issues in Secured Transactions Law in Canada: An Ontario Perspective Anthony Duggan6. The New Zealand Perspective Mike Gedye7. Australian Secured Transactions Law Reform David Brown8. Secured Transactions Law Reform in Malawi: the 2013 Personal Property Security ActMarek Dubovec and Cyprian Kambili9. Reforming the Law of Secured Transactions in Jersey Roy Goode and John Rainer10. Reforming the Company Charge Register in Ireland Noel McGrath11. Reforming the Law of Secured Transactions in Scotland Andrew JM Steven and Hamish PatrickPart II: The Current State of Affairs: the English Law of Secured Transactions12. The English Law of Personal Property Security: Under-reformed? Louise Gullifer and Magda Raczynska13. An Uneasy Case of Multiple Tracing Claims in English Law Magda Raczynska14. Should Clauses Prohibiting Assignment be Overridden by Statute? Louise GulliferPart III: Modernisation of the Law of Secured Transactions in Selected European Civil Law Jurisdictions15. The Peculiar Approach of German Law in the Field of Secured Transactions and Why it has worked (So Far) Moritz Brinkmann16. Italian Secured Transactions Law: the Need for Reform Anna Veneziano17. The Still Uncompleted Evolution of the French Law on Secured Transactions towards Modernity Jean-Francois Riffard18. The Belgian Reform on Security Interests in Movable Property Eric Dirix19. Secured Transactions Law Reform in Lithuania Andrius Smaliukas20. Modernisation of the Law of Secured Transactions in Spain Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell and Jorge Feliu ReyPart IV: The Potential Influence of International Legislative Texts on Law Reform21. The EBRD’s Experience in Secured Transactions Reform: How Can Outsiders Help? Frederique Dahan22. The United Nations Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade and Small Businesses N Orkun Akseli23. The UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions and the Draft UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions compared Spyridon V BazinasPart V: Conclusions and Recommendations24. Conclusions and Recommendations Louise Gullifer

[T]he book provides a thorough analysis of the key aspects of secured credit laws and reform efforts in many leading jurisdictions... In addition to informing and advancing the STR in England, the comparative overviews, analyses and prescriptions provided in this book will undoubtedly be of interest to practitioners and policy makers in other countries.