587 Personal Property Security Law (Wood)

LAW587

Personal Property Security Law

(Wood)

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Instructor(s): Professor Roderick Wood

Course credit: 3

Method of presentation: Lecture

METHOD OF EVALUATION

30% is based on an 80 minute closed book mid-term examination

70% is based on a 2 hour and twenty minute final open book examination

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed to provide you with an understanding of the rules, principles and polices underlying personal property security law. This body of law is of fundamental importance to lawyers who practice in the field of commercial law. Every Canadian common law jurisdiction has enacted a Personal Property Security Act, and therefore this course will also be of interest to students who expect to practise law outside of Alberta. The primary focus will be on the Personal Property Security Act. Topics will include the scope of the Act, security agreements, the concepts of attachment and perfection, the priority of security interests in relation to other interests, enforcement of security interests and restrictions on enforcement remedies. The course will also provide an overview of the Bank Act security device. A major emphasis in this course is the resolution of priority disputes between secured parties and a variety of competing claimants.

SPECIAL COMMENTS

Classroom response devices (clickers) will be used in several of the lectures. A free classroom app (Socrative) will allow you to respond on a laptop or mobile device.

Description updated 2019-20. Please contact the instructor for any specific questions you may have related to this particular course section. 

REQUIRED TEXTS (IF ANY)

Online Cases and Materials and Statutory Materials (available electronically at no charge on the TWEN site)