The Law of Letters of Credit: Commercial and Standby Credits

Author: John F. Dolan
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Get answers to all your letters of credit questions from the leading authority!

The Law of Letters of Credit: Commercial and Standby Credits has been the leading treatise on the subject for over 30 years. In an area with an increasing amount of activity and litigation, the federal and state courts cite this industry standard by John Dolan more than any other authority.

The Law of Letters of Credit guides you through the entire life cycle of credit—including such essential steps as establishing, amending, and terminating the credit and transfers and assignments. It includes all the U.S. cases and many hard-to-find international cases, so your research time is significantly reduced.

Written in an easy-to-follow, transactional form that clearly explains the mechanisms that underlie letter of credit activity:

Explanations and in-depth discussions of every facet of letters of credit in commerce and banking, both in international trade and in domestic commercial activity
Answers to all your letter of credit questions
Provides clear, how-to instruction
In-depth analysis, expert commentary, and extensive case citations for more experienced professionals
Extensive coverage of the 2006 UCP 600 (effective July 1, 2007)
Case rulings that could dramatically affect your international and domestic business deals

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John Dolan

John Dolan is Distinguished Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit. He has been a visiting professor of law at the University of Michigan, the University of California (Hastings College of the Law), twice at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, at Ave Maria School of Law, and at the University of Maastricht. He was also a visiting scholar at University College Dublin.

From 1988 to 1991, Professor Dolan chaired the American Bar Association Letter of Credit Subcommittee and was a full member initially and, later, an ex officio member of the Task Force that studied letters of credit for the ABA from 1987 to 1989. He was an ABA adviser to the Drafting Committee of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws that prepared the 1995 version of Article 5. From 1988 to 1995, he served as a member of the Study Group on Trade Documentation of the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on Private International Trade Law. He is a member of the American Law Institute and from 1990 to 1995 was adviser to the Restatement of Suretyship project. Professor Dolan has co-authored several textbooks and law journal articles.