Charles ("Chuck") W. Mooney Jr. (born August 13, 1947) is the

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Professor of Law at the

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, as well as the former interim Dean of the law school.

Education and law practice

Mooney was born in

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. He attended the

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, where he obtained his BA in 1969, and

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, where he earned his JD in 1972. He was admitted to the bar in Oklahoma in 1972, in New York in 1982, and in Pennsylvania in 1988. From 1976 to 1979, he was an adjunct professor at

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."CURRICULUM VITAE, CHARLES W. MOONEY, JR.,"
May 15, 2019. From 1977 to 1981 Mooney was a partner at the law firm Crowe & Dunleavy in

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. From 1981 to 1986, he was a partner at the law firm

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in New York City. From 1994 to 2003 he was a consultant at the law firm

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Biography

Mooney is the

Professor of Law at the

. At the law school, among other positions he has also been interim Dean (1999-2000) and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (1998-2000 and 2008-2009). He has been a visiting professor at

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, Universitat Pompeu Fabra,

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, and

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. His specialties are commercial law and bankruptcy law. He is the author of ''Security Interests in Personal Property'' (with Steven Harris, 6th ed. 2015). Mooney was awarded the Distinguished Service Award in 2002 by the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers. He served as a United States Delegate at the Diplomatic Conference for the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Aircraft Protocol, and at 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

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(UCC)

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(

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), as the

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(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.

Selected publications

*Charles W. Mooney,
Localized History of Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma to 1907
', 1971 *Charles W. Mooney,
Letters of Credit and Bankers' Acceptances
', 1985, Practising Law Institute, 1985 *Mooney, Charles W. Jr.,
Relationship between the Prospective UNIDROIT International Registry, Revised Uniform Commercial Code Article 9 and National Civil Aviation Registries
, 4 ''Unif. L. Rev.'' n.s. 335 (1999) *Mooney, Charles W. Jr.
"Contract Practices under the Cape Town Convention
" The Legal Advisory Panel of the Aviation Working Group, Cape Town Papers Series, Volume I, 9 ''Uniform Law Review'' Issue 3, August 2004, Pages 703–04, . *Steven L. Harris, Charles W. Mooney,
Security Interests in Personal Property: Cases, Problems, and Materials
', Foundation Press, 2006 *Mooney, Charles W. Jr., "Private Law and the Regulation of Securities Intermediaries: Perspectives under the Geneva Securities Convention and United States Law," 15 ''Uniform Law Review'', 3-4, August-December 2010, Pages 801–13 *Charles W. Mooney, Jr., Marek Dubovec, William Brydie-Watson,
The mining, agricultural and construction equipment protocol to the Cape Town Convention project: The current status
" 21 ''Uniform Law Review'' 2-3, August 2016, Pages 332–60 *Mooney, Charles W. Jr.,
Choice-of-law Rules for Secured Transactions: An Interest-Based and Modern Principles-Based Framework for Assessment
, 22 ''Uniform L. Rev.'' 842 (2017)

References

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