Armin STEINBACH

Professor

Law & Tax

Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law and Economics
steinbacha@hec.fr https://www.arminsteinbach.com/
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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.

Scientific articles

EU economic governance after the crisis: revisiting the accountability shift in EU economic governance

Journal of European Public Policy, 2019, vol. 26, n° 9, pp 1354-1372,

Compliance effects of sovereign debt cuts

International Review of Law and Economics, December 2019, vol. 60, n° 105854, (in coll. with E. Janeba)

Der politische Beamte als verfassungsrechtliches Problem [The political civil servant under constitutional]

Verwaltungsarchiv, 2018, vol. 109, n° 1, pp 2-32,

Die Versetzung in den einstweiligen Ruhestand – materielle und formelle Fragen zum politischen Beamten [The rules governing the dismissal of political civil servants]

Zeitschrift für Beamtenrecht, 2017, vol. 65, n° 10, pp 335-340,

Social Bots im Wahlkampf [Social Bots and election campaigns]

Zeitschrift für Rechtspolitik, 2017, vol. 50, n° 4, pp 101-105,

All’s well that ends well? Crisis policy after the German constitutional court’s ruling in

Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 2017, vol. 24, n° 1, pp 140-149,

Promoting Coherence Between PTAs and the WTO Through Systemic Integration

Journal of International Economic Law, July 2017, vol. 20, n° 1, pp 61-85, (in coll. with P. Apaza Lanyi)

Insurance-Type Cooperation Mechanisms under EU Law

Swiss Review of International and European Law, 2017, vol. 28, n° 1, pp 19-40,

Effect-based Analysis in the Jurisprudence on the Euro Crisis

European Law Review, 2017, vol. 42, n° 2, pp 254-269,

The EU debt crisis: Testing and revisiting conventional legal doctrine

International Review of Law and Economics, August 2017, vol. 51, pp 29-37, (in coll. with P. De Grauwe, Y. Ji)

Books

Chapters in edited books

Proceedings

Working papers

Scientific articles

Are the Fingerprints of WTO Staff on Panel Rulings a Problem? A Reply to Joost Pauwelyn and Krzysztof Pelc

European Journal of International Law, May 2022, vol. 33, n° 2, pp 565-574,

Das Amt in einer Gesellschaft der Singularitäten [The Public Office in the Society of Singularities]

Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, June 2022, vol. 108, n° 2, pp 288-312,

Next Generation EU – Rechtliche Aspekte der Aufbau- und Resilienzpläne [Next Generation EU – Legal issues surrounding Resilience and Recovery Plans]

Zeitschrift für Gesetzgebung, 2022, vol. 37, n° 1, pp 1-15,

Politikberatung zwischen Ambition und Wirklichkeit / Policy Advice between Ambition and Reality

Wirtschaftsdienst, July 2022, vol. 102, n° 7, pp 427-430,

Books

Verwaltungsrechtsprechung [Case-law in Administrative Law]

Mohr Siebeck

Economic Policy Coordination in the Euro Area

Routledge, London

Kommentar zum Netzausbau

Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York

Damit Deutschland vorankommt – Kompass für eine progressive Wirtschaftspolitik [What Germany Needs – A Guide for Progressive Economic Policy]

Berliner vorwärts Verlagsgesellschaft (in coll. with H. HEIL )

Chapters in edited books

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

Verursacherprinzip und Verursacher [Polluter principle and polluter]

Verwaltungsrechtsprechung [Cases In Administration Law], Armin Steinbach, Mohr Siebeck, 619-622

Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit und Bundesverwaltungsgericht [Administrative jurisdiction and the Federal Administrative Law Court]

Verwaltungsrechtsprechung [Cases In Administration Law], Armin Steinbach, Mohr Siebeck, 30-33

Proceedings

Working papers

Education

  • Habilitation, University of Bonn - Germany
  • Doctorate in Economics, University of Erfurt - Germany
  • Legal State Board Examination, admission to the bar - Germany
  • Doctorate in Law, University of Munich - Germany
  • M.Sc. in Economics, Humboldt University - Germany
  • LL. M., Free University Brussels - Belgium

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2023-2024 Department Head, Law and Tax HEC Paris
  • 2022- Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law and Economics HEC Paris
  • 2021- Professor of Law HEC Paris

External Academic Responsibilities

  • 2025- Director-General for Economic and Fiscal Policy Ministère Allemand des Finances
  • 2019- Affiliate Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
  • 2016-2018 Jean Monnet Fellow European University Institute, Florence

Scientific Activities

Conference organisation

  • 2022-2022 2022 Sustainable Governance Conference organizer

    • Awards & honors

    • 2022 Jean Monnet Chair holder in EU Law and Economics