Commercial Law: Secured Transactions

KU Law Professor Stephen Ware

I began teaching Secured Transactions in 1994, while on the faculty of Samford University's Cumberland School of Law. I've taught Secured Transactions, either as a stand-alone course or as part of a broader Commercial Law course, for 30 years at Cumberland, William & Mary, and Kansas.

KU Law’s Course Description for Law 873, Commercial Transactions: 

Secured Transactions is: Introduction to debtor-creditor law, particularly secured transactions under the Uniform Commercial Code and the Bankruptcy Code.

Fall 2024 Secured Transactions syllabus:

2024 UCC (Delaware); Uniform Commercial Code (Delaware) 

Fall 2023 midterm exam: Secured fall 23 mid term tst Oct 2 (pdf)

Overview of judicial collection law: Nutshell overview of judicial collection law (pdf)

Two additional readings on debt collection in Kansas:

Shelly_Thousands-sued-for-medical-debt_Shawnee-Mission-Post_7.1_Rev.SC

County in rural Kansas is jailing people over unpaid medical debt

McLinn v. Thomas County Sheriffs Dept.: McLinn v Thomas County Sheriffs Department edited by Ware 2022 Sept 5 (pdf)

Mortgage lenders pursue homeowners even after foreclosure (pdf)

LoPucki casebook’s Supplemental Problems: LoPucki casebook 9th ed Supplemental Problems (pdf)

Sections of the Kansas Uniform Consumer Credit Code KS Consumer Credit Code selections (pdf)

Fall 2022 Secured Transactions mid-term exam: Secured fall 22 mid term tst Oct 14 (pdf)

Fall 2020 Secured Transactions exam in two parts: Secured fall 20 test Part 1 (pdf) & Secured fall 20 test Part 2 (pdf)

Video of Steve Ware discussing secured transactions and related debtor-creditor law in Lawrence, Kansas