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2019_Book_ACriticalLegalStudyOfTheIdeolo.pdf

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1|Preface|7
1|Contents|9
1|Chapter 1: General Introduction|13
2|1.1 Research Questions and Statement of Intent|20
2|1.2 Research Approach and Research Method|22
2|1.3 Scope of the Research|22
2|1.4 Addendum: First Critical Legal Study of Solvency II´s Ideology|24
2|Bibliography|25
1|Part I: Being a Broadly Informed Generalizer: The Research Ontology|28
2|Chapter 2: Introduction to Part I|29
3|Bibliography|34
2|Chapter 3: The Research Approach: CLS|35
3|3.1 Introduction|35
3|3.2 Plucking ``the Mask of Mystery from the Face of Jurisprudence´´|36
4|3.2.1 An Explication of the Mysteriousness of Jurisprudence|36
4|3.2.2 Taking a Stand in Jurisprudence: Inclination Towards Broad Jurisprudence and Methodological Syncretism|41
4|3.2.3 The Case for Broad Jurisprudence|50
3|3.3 A Jurisprudential School of Thought After All: Critical Legal Studies|56
4|3.3.1 Introduction Accompanied by a Prelude to Critical Legal Studies with Justifications for Its Utilization|56
4|3.3.2 The Origins and Present State of CLS|63
3|3.4 The Relevant Themes of CLS|71
4|3.4.1 The Main Common Theme: Hostility Towards Orthodoxy and Neutrality|71
5|3.4.1.1 Law and Politics of Either Good or Evil|81
5|3.4.1.2 Reconciling CLS with Good and Evil|119
5|3.4.1.3 The Political Economy of Law|126
5|3.4.1.4 The Market as an Exchange of Goods and Services (Specialization)|138
4|3.4.2 Two Main CLS Definitions of Law|147
5|3.4.2.1 The Relevant CLS Definition of Law|154
5|3.4.2.2 Specialized, Detailed and Technical Language in (Financial) Law|174
4|3.4.3 The Many (Historical) Meanings of Ideology|176
4|3.4.4 The Customized Meaning of Ideology and Its Connection to Law|189
3|3.5 The Relevant Techniques of CLS|199
4|3.5.1 The Main Technique: Critique Accompanied by Genealogy|199
4|3.5.2 Methodological Trashing of Ideology|202
3|Bibliography|204
2|Chapter 4: The Research Method: Law Reform Design|219
3|Bibliography|225
2|Chapter 5: Self-criticism|227
3|Bibliography|230
2|Chapter 6: Concluding Summary of Part I with a Schematic Representative Structure of Chaotic Reality|231
3|Reference|234
1|Part II: Being a Specialized Investigator and Law Reform Designer: The Political Economy of Solvency II|235
2|Chapter 7: Introduction to Part II|236
3|Bibliography|238
2|Chapter 8: A Prelude to Solvency II|239
3|8.1 The Solvency of Insurance Undertakings Established on EU Territory|239
3|8.2 The Special Sort of Business of Insurance Undertakings and Their Special Consumers (Micro-level)|252
3|8.3 The Market of Insurance Undertakings Established on EU Territory|258
4|8.3.1 The Evolution from Common Market to Internal Market|258
4|8.3.2 Greater Support of Economism|263
4|8.3.3 The Internal Insurance Market: The Evolution of the Market from Solvency I to Solvency II|265
4|8.3.4 The Effect of the Last Financial and Economic Crisis on the Internal (Insurance) Market: A Turning Point for the Support...|276
3|8.4 Basel II in a Nutshell|279
4|8.4.1 Basic but Essential Differences Between Banks and Insurance Undertakings|287
4|8.4.2 Origins and raisons d´être|287
4|8.4.3 Modern Business Model Characteristics|290
3|8.5 Conclusion|297
3|Bibliography|298
2|Chapter 9: Ideology of the Form: Solvency II Versus Solvency I and Basel II|307
3|9.1 Introduction|307
3|9.2 External Form of the Instruments|307
4|9.2.1 Solvency I Versus Solvency II|307
4|9.2.2 The Extent of the Imitation: Basel II Versus Solvency II|312
3|9.3 Internal Form of the Instruments|315
4|9.3.1 Solvency I Versus Solvency II|315
4|9.3.2 The Extent of the Imitation: Basel II Versus Solvency II|317
3|Bibliography|318
2|Chapter 10: Ideology of the Substance: Solvency II Versus Solvency I and Basel II|321
3|10.1 Introduction|321
3|10.2 Objectives (General)|321
3|10.3 The Direct Objectives of Solvency II and Their Comparison|323
3|10.4 Solvency|328
4|10.4.1 Solvency I Versus Solvency II|328
5|10.4.1.1 Technical Provisions and Their Asset Coverage|328
5|10.4.1.2 Solvency Margins|341
5|10.4.1.3 Guarantee Funds|347
4|10.4.2 The Extent of the Imitation: Basel II Versus Solvency II|348
5|10.4.2.1 Valuation of Assets and Liabilities|348
5|10.4.2.2 Own Funds|350
5|10.4.2.3 Capital Requirements|352
5|10.4.2.4 The Story of VaR|359
3|10.5 Investment|363
4|10.5.1 Solvency I Versus Solvency II|363
4|10.5.2 The Extent of the Imitation: Basel II Versus Solvency II|364
3|10.6 The Global Methodological Trashing of Basel II As Source of Imitation for Solvency II|371
3|Bibliography|378
2|Chapter 11: Concluding Summary of Part II|383
1|Chapter 12: General Conclusion|386
2|12.1 Summary of the Findings of the Broadly Informed Generalizer: The Mirror of the Research|386
2|12.2 Summary of the Findings of the Specialized Investigator: The Motor of the Research|388
2|References|391