First of all, I want to thank the editors of the Business Law Prof Blog for allowing me to guest blog over the summer.  I thoroughly enjoyed my stay here and they have been kind enough to let me continue posting from time to time as a contributing editor.  Thanks again to all of you.

    The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws ("NCCUSL") (also known as the "Uniform Law Commission") promulgates several influential business organization statutes:  the Revised Uniform Partnership Act (1997), the Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (1985), the Uniform Limited Partnership Act (2001), and the Revised Uniform LLC Act (2006), to name a few.  Some of these statutes have been widely adopted.  The Revised Uniform Partnership Act, for example, has been adopted by 38 states (as well as the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands) according to the Uniform Law Commission's website.  As another example, the Uniform Limited Partnership Act (2001) has been adopted by 19 states (as well as the District of Columbia) according to the same website.

    From 2009-2013, NCCUSL engaged in an intensive effort to harmonize all of the uniform acts covering unincorporated business organizations.  The "Harmonization Project" included the compilation of a Uniform Business Organizations Code, which comprises a "hub" of common provisions and various spokes addressing different business organizations (e.g., general partnerships or limited partnerships).  Each spoke has also been promulgated as a stand-alone act in the event that a jurisdiction does not want to adopt the entire Business Organizations Code.

    The result of this Harmonization Project is that NCCUSL's uniform acts covering unincorporated business organizations have all changed.  Among others, there is now a 2013 version of the general partnership statute, the limited partnership statute, and the limited liability company statute that differ — in some places materially — from the prior versions that you may be familiar with.  The comments have also been rewritten.

    In future posts, I plan on discussing some of the changes that the Harmonization Project has brought about.  If you are interested, please stay tuned . . . .