SECTION Ⅰ： The Financial Crisis in a Systemic Perspective 3
1. A Constitutional Moment？ The Logics of ‘Hitting the Bottom’&Gunther Teubner 3
2. Towards a General Theory of Function System Crises&Rudolf Stichweh 43
SECTION Ⅱ： Dynamics 61
Section Ⅱ.1： The Breakdown of Expectations 61
3. The Financial Market Crisis—a Case of Network Failure？&Karl-Heinz Ladeur 63
4. Death by Complexity—the Financial Crisis and the Crisis of Law in World Society&Moritz Renner 93
5. Political Epidemiology and the Financial Crisis&Urs Staheli 113
Section Ⅱ.2： Fundamental Crises of society 131
6. The Return of Crisis&Hauke Brunkhorst 133
7. The Culture Form of Crisis&Dirk Baecker 173
8. What is a Crisis？&Jean Clam 189
SECTION Ⅲ： Reactions 221
Section Ⅲ.1： Regulatory Reactions 221
9. Eroding Boundaries： On Financial Crisis and an Evolutionary Concept of Regulatory Reform&Marc Amstutz 223
10. The Failure of Regulatory Institutions—a Conceptual Framework&Alberto Febbrajo 269
Section Ⅲ.2： Individual and Collective Reactions 303
11. Struggles for Law： Global Social Rights as an Alternative to Financial Market Capitalism&Kolja Moller 305
12. The Ethics of the Financial Crisis&Aldo Mascareno 333
Section Ⅲ.3： Constitutional Transformation 355
13. The Future of the State&Chris Thornhill 357
14. Law and Order within and Beyond National Configurations&Poul F Kjaer 395
Index 431