Payment Systems

The casebook for our course on Payment Systems will be Ronald J. Mann, Payment Systems and Other Financial Transactions: Cases, Materials, and Problems (5th ed 2011). 

You will also need a statute book.  The bookstore has ordered the 2011 edition of Ronald L. Mann et al, ed., Comprehensive Commercial Law: Statutory Supplement (Aspen 2011), which is the statute book I will use in class.  (That’s also the statute book we used in Secured Transactions last fall, so there should be used copies available.)  If you have a statute book from another publisher or from last year, or both, that will probably suffice for most purposes. 

It shouldn’t make much difference whether your statute book is a 2010 or 2011 edition. There’s some recent legislation that made its first appearance in the 2011 editions of the statute books, but those changes will be around the edges of our coverage, not at the core.  Perhaps more significant, there is some specialized material in the Aspen statute book that doesn’t appear in other publishers’ offerings, and you’ll need that material for a few assignments in the casebook.  Neither of those make a used statute book a bad idea – especially if it’s a great bargain – but they will make the Mann 2011 statute book a little more convenient.

For our first class on Monday, January 9, please read and be prepared to discuss the following in the Mann casebook, paying particular attention to the problems at the end of Assignment 1:

Preface (pages xxiii-xxiv)

Introduction to Part One (pages 3-11)

Assignment 1 (pages 13-25).

I look forward to seeing you on January 9.