Unternehmensskandale und skandalgetriebene Regulierung: Die Stavisky-Affäre als Prüfstein

Corporate Scandals and Scandal-Driven Regulation: The Stavisky Affair as Touchstone. This article is an opening contribution to a new research program on corporate scandals and their legal treatment around the world. In addition to addressing civil and criminal sanctions, the main focus lies on the widespread but under-researched phenomenon of scandal-driven reform legislation. Selected case studies from the past and the present will help to create a better picture of the connections between business scandals and legal regulation. A first touchstone for such systematic comparative scandal-based research is found in early 1930s France with the Stavisky affair - a case that not only kept the business and financial world in suspense, but one that also shook the political foundations of the Third Republic.