Viehweg’s Topics, Article 9 UCC, the “Kautelarische Sicherheiten” and the Hungarian Secured Transactions Law Reform

Tibor Tajti*

Tibor provides an analysis of whether the return to the ‘traditional’ rules – which have proved to be in essence unsatisfactory in the past decades – could at all lead to the intended revival of credit life in Hungary, or in any other country undertaking reforms, in the area of secured transactions law.

*   Post-doctoral researcher, Central European University’s Legal Studies Department Budapest, Hungary, where he was awarded his LL.M. and S.J.D. degree in international business law. The release of his book entitled ‘Comparative Secured Transactions Law’ is expected in February 2002 (publisher: Akadémiai Könyvkiadó – Kluwer Academic Publishers, Budapest, Prielle Kornélia u. 4, 1117 Budapest, Hungary; online ordering at <http://www.akkrt.hu.>) Comments should be sent to: tajtit@ceu.hu or ttajti01@yahoo.com. Research for this article was supported through the Blue Bird Project, which is financed by a consortium of international donors and administered by the Central European University (“CEU”). Specifically, contributions from the international donor, Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), were used to fund this work. The opinions expressed herein are the author’s own and do not necessarily express the views of CEU or the Blue Bird Project.