Legal challenges in the global financial crisis

List of Contributors
Table of Cases
Tables of Legislation

1 Introduction
Wolf-Georg Ringe and Peter M Huber

Part I The Constitution
2 The Rescue of the Euro and its Constitutionality
Peter M Huber

3 Democracy in the Eurozone
Pavlos Eleftheriadis

4 Debt Limits in Constitutional Law: The ‘Debt Brake’
Gregor Kirchhof

5 Debt Limits in German Constitutional Law – A UK Perspective
John McEldowney

Part II Europe
6 Why the ECB Cannot Save the Euro
Paul Yowell

7 A Governance Crisis? Treaty Change, Fiscal Union and the ECB
Christoph Ohler

8 State Aid and the Financial Crisis
Conor Quigley

9 State Aid for Banks in the Financial Crisis: The Commission’s New and Stronger Role
Thomas Ackermann

Part III Regulation
10 Comparing Apples and Oranges? Public, Private, Tax, and Criminal Law
Instruments in Financial Markets Regulation
Alexander Hellgardtvi Contents

11 Regulatory Choice: Observations on the Recent Experience With Corrective Taxes in the Financial Sector
John Vella

12 Banking Special Resolution Regimes as a Governance Tool
Gustaf Sjöberg

13 Special Resolution Regimes for Banking Institutions: Objectives and Limitations
Christos Hadjiemmanuil

Part IV The Limits of Legal Regulation
14 The Limits of Legal Regulation – Will the Treaty on Stability,
Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union Have a Real Legal Effect?
Rudolf Streinz

15 The European Public Debt Crisis and the Institutional Framework of
the Monetary Union: Experience and Adjustments
Franz-Christoph Zeitler

Index