Fellows & Grantees

Charles Mooney Jr

Abe Fellowship 2016
Project Title
Japanese Markets for Private Business Credit: Prospects for Modernizing Japanese Secured Transactions Law
Institutional Affiliation (at time of award)
Professor, School of Law, University of Pennsylvania

Bio

Charles Mooney Jr. is a
leading legal scholar in the fields of commercial law and bankruptcy law. His
book Security Interests in Personal Property (with S. HARRIS, Foundation Press,
2d ed. 1992; Supp. 1999; 3d ed. 2000; 4th ed. 2006; 5th ed. 2011; 6th ed. 2015)
is a widely adopted text used in law schools around the United States. Mooney
was honored for his contributions to the uniform law process by the Oklahoma
City School of Law and was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the
American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers. He also served as US Delegate
at the Diplomatic Conference for the Cape Town Convention on International
Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Aircraft Protocol and for the Diplomatic
Conference for the UNIDROIT (Geneva) Convention on Intermediated Securities.
Mooney also served as a Co-Reporter for the Drafting Committee for the Revision
of UCC Article 9 (Secured Transactions), as the ABA Liaison-Advisor to the
Permanent Editorial Board for the UCC, and as a member of Council and Chair of
the Committee on UCC of the ABA Business Law Section.

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