Francis J. Facciolo

Works in Progress

The Securities Investor Protection Act, Microcap Fraud and Revised Article 8: Time for Reform.

Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and the Consumer.

Law Review Articles

Good Enough Execution: The Early History of the Duty of Best Execution,  Pace Law Review (forthcoming)

When Deference Becomes Abdication: Immunizing Widespread Broker-Dealer Practices from Judicial Review through the Possibility of SEC Oversight , 73 Mississippi Law Journal 1 (2003).

Father Knows Best: Revised Article 8 and the Individual Investor, 27 Florida State University Law Review 615 (2000).

Co-author of Avoiding the Inevitable:  The Continuing Viability of StateLaw Claims in the Face of Primary Jurisdiction and Preemption Challenges under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 1995 Columbia Business Law Review 525. Cited in "Worth Reading" column of The National Law Journal.

Illegal Lofts in New York City: Have the Equities Been Balanced?, 14 Fordham Urban Law Journal 559 (1986).

Legal Periodical Articles

Reviewing Article 8’s Revised Collusion Standard in New York Law Journal, March 27, 2001, page 1.

Legislature Mulls Change of Article 8 in New York Law Journal, October 17, 1996, page 7; reprinted in UCC Bulletin (April 1997).

Co-author of Order Flow Cases:  Jurisdiction, Preemption and Securities Laws in New York Law Journal, May 9, 1995, page 1.

Co-author of Double Jeopardy Issues in the Financial Sector in New York Law Journal, August 3, 1994, page 1; reprinted in 20 RICO Law Reporter 1139 (1994).

Book Essays and Reviews

Review essay of Project Finance in 11 Boston University International Law Journal 165 (1993).

Book review of Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-1960 in 34 The American Journal of Jurisprudence 252 (1989).

Book review of Lawyers in Business and the Law Business in 21 Law and Policy in International Business 309 (1989).

Continuing Legal Education Publications

Case Study: Paper Deinking Mills, a paper presented at a seminar on Project Finance Opportunities in Recent Environmental Legislation (1992).

Co-author of Negotiating Debt and Equity Documents for Construction and Operation (and a related case study) in Course Handbook for Project Finance: A Tutorial (Infocast ed., Chicago, 1991 & 1992).

Bar Association Reports

Uniform State Laws Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Revised Article 1 of the Uniform Commercial Code, 59 The Record 176 (2004) (abbreviated version); http://www.abcny.org/pdf/report/LEGALDOCS-1 (full version).  I was the chair of the subcommittee that drafted the report and had primary drafting responsibility for the section on revised section 1-301, the new choice of law section.

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