»Need for Reform in Short Attacks«: Short attacks represent a cross-sectional issue under capital market law, the enormous effects of which have been insufficiently considered so far. For this reason, the dissertation weighs the different interests in the context of Short attacks from an economic and legal point of view. After weighing them up, an appropriate balance is conceived by means of a new legal regulation in the form of a temporary trading ban as well as an optimization of the already existing norms.