Armin STEINBACH

Professor

Law & Tax

Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law and Economics

steinbacha@hec.fr https://www.arminsteinbach.com/

Biography

Armin Steinbach is currently on leave to serve as director-general in the German Ministry of Finance in charge of economic and fiscal policy strategy.

Armin holds the Jean Monnet Chair and the HEC Foundation Chair of Law and Economics at HEC Paris. He is also visiting professor at the London School of Economics (LSE) and non-resident Fellow at Brussels-based think tank Bruegel. Previously, Armin held academic posts as Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Oxford University's Nuffield College, Senior Fellow at the Max Planck Instite for Collective Goods in Bonn, Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, visiting professor at University of St. Gallen, and Harvard University's Center for European Studies.

During previous stages as government official, Armin headed the financial policy division in the German Ministry of Finance and the economic policy division in the Ministry of Economic and Energy Affairs. He also worked at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva and as lawyer with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Brussels. Armin sits on the WTO list of panelists serving the WTO Dispute Settlement Body.

With his mixed background in academia and public service, Armin's research aims at interdisciplinary inquiry and bridging academic research and policy-making. Besides his academic publications, Armin has been a contributor and commentator to BBC, CNBC, Le Monde, Les Echos, Financial Times, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Handelsblatt.

Armin obtained his Habilitation from University of Bonn, for which he was awarded the Science Prize of the German Society of Legislation. He also holds a Doctor of Laws from University of Munich, Doctor of Economics from University of Erfurt, Master of Laws from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Master in Economics from Humboldt University Berlin.

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Scientific articles

Banking Regulation and Sovereign Default Risk: How Regulation Undermines Rules

European Journal of Risk Regulation, Forthcoming, (in coll. with O. HÜLSEWIG)

European Public Goods

International Journal of Constitutional Law, Forthcoming,

The Governance and Funding of European Rearmament

Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, 2025, vol. 60, n° 4, pp 210-214, (in coll. with G. B. Wolff, J. Zettelmeyer)

The Supranational Turn of EU Defence Policy

Common Market Law Review, 2025, vol. 62, n° 6, pp 1635–1674,

Debt-financing the EU

Common Market Law Review, August 2024, vol. 61, n° 4, pp 993-1018, (in coll. with S. GRUND)

Digitale Souveränität [Digital sovereignty]

List Forum für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik, June 2024, vol. 50, pp 51-74,

The EU’s Turn to ‘Strategic Autonomy’: Leeway for Policy Action and Points of Conflict

European Journal of International Law, November 2023, vol. 34, n° 4, pp 973-1006,

Economic sanctions and human rights: Quantifying proportionality

Harvard Human Rights Journal, 2023, vol. 2023, n° 36, pp 401-440, (in coll. with Jerg Gutmann, Matthias Neuenkirch, Florian Neumeier)

L’union budgétaire et de transfert sans limites juridiques ?

Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Européen, October-December 2023, vol. 4, pp 681-696,

Der EU-Corona-Aufbaufonds – nächste Etappe in die Fiskal- und Transferunion? [NGEU – next step towards the fiscal transfer union?]

Neue Juristische Wochenschrift, February 2023, vol. 7, pp 405-410, (in coll. with S. GRUND)

Books

EU Law and Economics

Oxford University Press 2025

Constitutionalism and Transnational Governance Failures

De Gruyter Brill 2024 (in coll. with E.-U. PETERSMANN )

Kommentar zum Netzausbau [Commentary on Energy Grid]

Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2021 (in coll. with P. FRANKE )

Ökonomische Analyse des Europa- und Völkerrechts [Economic Analysis of International Law and European Law]

Mohr Siebeck 2019 (in coll. with A. VAN AAKEN )

EU Liability and International Economic Law

Hart Publishing 2017

Kommentar zum Netzausbau [Commentary on Energy Grid Law]

Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2017

Messstellenbetriebsgesetz [The Digitization of Energiewende]

Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2017 (in coll. with M. WEISE )

Rationale Gesetzgebung

Mohr Siebeck 2017

Verwaltungsrechtsprechung [Case-law in Administrative Law]

Mohr Siebeck 2017

Economic Policy Coordination in the Euro Area

Routledge, London 2014

Chapters in edited books

Constitutional Economics and Transnational Governance Failures

Constitutionalism And Transnational Governance Failures, Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann and Armin Steinbach, De Gruyter Brill, 75-106

Protest à la française [Protest in France]

Jahrbuch Des Öffentlichen Rechts, Oliver Lepsius, Angelika Nußberger, Christian Waldhoff, Christian Walter, Mohr Siebeck

Zukunftssicherung als Ressourcenproblem – der Lösungsbeitrag des Europarechts [Securing the future as a resource problem - the contribution of European law to solving it]

Zukunftssicherndes Verfassungsrecht, Gregor Kirchhof and Daniel Wolff, Mohr Siebeck

Der Gesetzgeber im Spannungsfeld zwischen Wissen und Wollen [Knowledge and Political Will in Law-Making]

Die Kunst Der Gesetzgebung, Andrea Kießling / Indra Spiecker genannt Döhmann, Peter Lang Group, 35-64

Markets as an Accountability Mechanism in EU Economic Governance

Substantive Accountability In Europe'S New Economic Governance, Cambridge University Press, 1 , 63-80

Die Bedeutung der ökonomischen Analyse für das öffentliche Recht [Public Law and Economics]

Wandlungen Im Öffentlichen Recht, Sebastian Bretthauer et al., Nomos, 425-442

Die Gewerbeordnung im Blickwinkel rationaler Gesetzgebung [Rationality of the law governing the industrial sector]

150 Jahre Gewerbeordnung, Winfried Kluth & Stefan Korte, Cuvillier Verlag [Cuvillier Publishing], 31-50

Effektuierung der Rechtsbefolgung als interdisziplinärer Gegenstand [Interdisciplinary perspectives on law and compliance]

Warum Befolgen Wir Recht? [Why Do We Obey The Law?], Patrick Hilpert & Rochen Rauber, Mohr Siebeck, 271-296

Gefahrenvorsorge und Strafverfolgungsvorsorge [Risk precaution and criminal prosecution]

Verwaltungsrechtsprechung [Cases In Administration Law], Armin Steinbach, Mohr Siebeck, 500-505

Menschenwürde und öffentliche Ordnung [Human dignity and public order]

Verwaltungsrechtsprechung [Cases In Administration Law], Armin Steinbach, Mohr Siebeck, 459-465

Proceedings

Enhancing incentive-based and insurance-type coordination

ECB Legal Conference 2015: From Monetary Union to Banking Union, on the way to Capital Markets Union , 2015 , Frankfurt am Main , 7

Working papers

A Dynamic Federalism Test

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2025

Fiscal Responses to Monetary Policy: Insights From a Survey Among Government Officials

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2024

Financial Sanctions Warfare

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2023