After Enron: improving corporate law and modernising securities regulation in Europe and the US / John Armour and Joseph A. McCahery -- The mechanisms of market efficiency twenty years later: the hindsight bias / Ronald J. Gilson and Reinier Kraakman -- Taming the animal spirits of the stock markets: a behavioural approach to securities regulation / Donald C. Langevoort -- Icarus and American corporate regulation / David A. Skeel, Jr. -- Corporate governance after Enron: an age of enlightenment / Simon Deakin and Suzanne J. Konzelmann -- Financial scandals and the role of private enrollment: the Parmalat case / Guido Ferrarini and Paolo Giudici -- A theory of corporate scandals: why the US and Europe differ / John C. Coffee, Jr. -- The case for shareholder access to the ballot / Lucian Arye Bebchuck -- Rules, principles, and the accounting crisis in the United States / William W. Bratton -- The oligopolistic gatekeeper: the US accounting profession / James D. Cox -- The liability risk for outside directors : a cross-border analysis / Bernard Black, Brian Cheffins and Michael Klausner -- The legal control of directors' conflicts of interest in the United Kingdom : non-executive directors following the Higgs Report / Richard C. Nolan -- Enron and corporate governance reform in the UK and the European community / Paul Davies -- Modern company and capital market problems : improving European corporate governance after Enron / Klaus J. Hopt -- Who should make corporate law? EC legislation versus regulatory competition / John Armour -- Company and takeover law reforms in Europe : misguided harmonization efforts or regulatory competition? / Gérard Hertig and Joseph A. McCahery -- The regulatory process for securities law-making in the EU / Eilís Ferran -- EC company law directives and regulations : how trivial are they? / Luca Enriques