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The seventy-fifth anniversary of The Business Lawyer provides an excellent occasion to step back and take informal stock of the contributions that the ABA's Business Law Section (the "Section") has [...], Most of the Uniform Commercial Code revision and amendment projects of recent decades have drawn invaluable input and energy from the committees, subcommittees, task forces, and working groups of the ABA's Business Law Section. The projects addressed in this article are the initial promulgation of Article 2A on Leases; the repeal and revision of Article 6 on Bulk Sales; the revisions to Article 8 on Investment Securities; the revision of Article 9 on Secured Transactions; and the "Terrible Two's" projects involving UETA, the unfulfilled amendments to Articles 2 and 2A on Sales and Leases, and UCITA. Drawing on their firsthand experiences among many other sources, the authors show the wide variety of beneficial forms that the Section's input has taken.

I INTRODUCTION A quarter century ago I served as special editor of the Law and Contemporary Problems issue "Technology and Commercial Law." (1) My personal contribution to that issue focused [...]

A taxonomy of information technology is helpful in analyzing the application of commercial law to areas such as automated clearing and settlement in the securities market. Attributes of information technology include storage capacity, transmission speed, system complexity and unpredictability. The relevant legal contexts include property law, regulation of systems and participants, assessing technological applications and systems markets and the influence of technology on choices of commercial law.