The present volume contains a systematic comprehensive view of the decisions by the Federal Supreme Court regarding the new insolvency order which has been in effect since January 1,1999. In so doing, it goes over how the Federal Supreme Court has conferred contours and systematic structures to this field of law, which has been put into a state of unrest during the past seven years through the introduction of new legal institutes, the adoption of regulations from other legal systems, diverse new laws and their amendments.