It has been nearly 15 years since the last AALS Conference on Commercial Law was held in 1990. To say that the commercial law landscape has changed in the interim would be an understatement. Most obvious among these developments have been the various new and amended articles of the Uniform Commercial Code that have been approved by ALI and NCCUSL and enacted in many states since 1990. A less obvious but arguably more important change has been the shift in the role of the UCC in the commercial law curriculum. The UCC’s status as the unchallenged centerpiece of every commercial law course has been gradually eroding to account for new realities such as technology, globalization and the emerging impact of non-UCC private lawmaking in a number of commercial law spheres. |
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