The financial crisis has literally stress tested the European Union and indeed continues to do so. It has already laid bare many fundamental issues and conundrums of the European Union and the European Unions legal system that had been waiting to be seriously addressed for quite a number of years.This book examines the consequences of the financial crisis for European Union law not only with respect to various specific areas of the law, namely contract law, company law, capital markets law, banking law, competition law, tax law, insolvency law, but also with respect to fundamental issues regarding the role and function of the European Union and European law.

Contributions by: Carlos Esplugues, Jessica Schmidt, Rafael Arenas Garcia, Antonio Pastor Palomar, Markus Roth, Henrik Gildehaus, Matthias Lehmann, Agustin J. Menéndez, André Meyer, Phillip Hellwege, Ann-Chantal Gressler, Guillermo Palao Moreno, Malte Kramme, Rupprecht Podszun, Marius Leber, Francisco Garcimartín Alférez, Michael Müller, Manuel Penades Fons, Isabel Lirola Delgado, Magdalena Martin Martinez, Pablo Martin Rodriguez, Paloma Garcia Picazo, Volker Wiese