Perspectives on the U.C.C. Book

	Preface
	Introduction for Law Students
Ch. 1	Commercial Law before the Code	3
	The Progressive Development of Commercial Law	4
	The Genesis of the Uniform Commercial Code	13
	Taking Commercial Law Seriously	17
Ch. 2	Drafting the Code and Getting in Enacted	23
	Legislative History of the Uniform Commercial Code	24
	Statement to The New York Law Revision Commission	31
	Reflections of a Drafter	40
Ch. 3	A Look at Karl Llewellyn	49
	Biography of Karl Llewellyn	49
	In Memoriam: Karl Llewellyn	53
	Alcoholism and Angst in the Life and Work of Karl Llewellyn	57
Ch. 4	Methodology of the Code	61
	The Jurisprudence of the Uniform Commercial Code	62
	U.C.C. Methodology: Taking A Realistic Look At The Code	69
	Karl Llewellyn's Fading Imprint on The Jurisprudence of the Uniform Commercial Code	73
Ch. 5	Interpretation	79
	Some Comments on The Comments to The Uniform Commercial Code	79
	Brief Comments on the Comments	85
	Purposive Interpretation Of The Uniform Commercial Code	86
Ch. 6	Federalization	91
	A Modest Solution?	92
	Uniformity and State-by-State Enactment: Contradictions	98
	Is There an Alternative to the Code?	105
Ch. 7	Critiques of the Code: Form and Substance	109
	The Language of the Uniform Commercial Code	110
	The Law Wishes to Have a Formal Existence	115
	Commercializing Marriage	120
	Is the Code A-Political? Some Lessons from Buying a Klan Knife	125
Ch. 8	Politics of the Code	131
	The Principles Underlying the Drafting of the Uniform Commercial Code	131
	Thinking like a Lawyer, Acting like a Lobbyist	138
	Interest Group Politics, Federalism, and the Uniform Laws Process	146
Ch. 9	Commercial Law and Literature	153
	On Rigor in Science	153
	Eating Out	154
	The Company	157
	The Negotiable Cow	166
	Depositing The Junk Mail Check	170
Ch. 10	Concluding Assessment of the Code	175
	Student Responses to the Question "What is Your Opinion of the UCC?"	176
	Assessment of the Uniform Commercial Code	178
	Uniform Commercial Code Romanticism (and Realism)	180
	Index	183