The current financial crisis is preoccupying business and politics like no prior crisis. The economic effects are being felt on global, European, and national levels and are forcing governments to take extreme counter-measures. The long-term goal is not merely stabilization but rather to stabilize the financial system. System stability requires a regulatory framework that can comprehensively prevent possible future crises. For the first time at a conference held at the Humboldt-University in Berlin, leading experts from the legal and economic academic fields discussed the common effects and impact of the financial crisis on the (future) economic system.

The search forthe limits of entrepreneurial powerinvolves an age-old core question of stock corporation law and at the same time a modern central subject in the corporate governance discussion. In general, the limits of entrepreneurial power to direct in open-market associations can only be determined logically in the interplay of rules governing stock corporations and takeovers and function mechanisms. The special feature of the present work is found in the interlinking examination of market and organization law.