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Armin STEINBACH

Professor

Law & Tax

Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law and Economics
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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

Effect-based Analysis in the Jurisprudence on the Euro Crisis

European Current Law, 2017, vol. 10, pp 1007-1020,

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,

Structural reforms in EU member states : exploring sanction-based and reward-based mechanisms

European journal of legal studies, September 2016, vol. 9, n° 1, pp 173-211,

Non-Legal Insight for Optimal Norm Design

Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, September 2016, vol. 102, n° 3, pp 380-404,

The Trend toward Non-consensualism in Public International Law: A (Behavioral) Law and Economics Perspective

European Journal of International Law, August 2016, vol. 27, n° 3, pp 643–668,

The ‘Haircut’ of Public Creditors under EU Law

European Constitutional Law Review, September 2016, vol. 12, n° 2, pp 223-239,

Spiegelbildlichkeit als Proporzprinzip [Constitutional Proportions through Mirroring]

Die Öffentliche Verwaltung, April 2016, vol. 7, pp 286-293,

Investor-Staat-Schiedsverfahren und Verfassungsrecht [Investor-state dispute settlement and constitutional law]

Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, 2016, vol. 80, n° 1, pp 1-38,

Books

Chapters in edited books

Proceedings

Working papers

Scientific articles

The Federalism Dimension of Proportionality

European Law Journal, January-May 2022, vol. 28, n° 1-3, pp 36-49,

The Greening of the Economic and Monetary Union

Common Market Law Review, 2022, vol. 59, n° 2, pp 329 – 362,

Monetary Financing and Fiscal Discipline

International Review of Law and Economics, December 2021, vol. 68, n° 106004, (in coll. with O. HÜLSEWIG)

Neo-Liberalism, State-Capitalism and Ordo-Liberalism: ‘Institutional Economics’ and ‘Constitutional Choices’ in Multilevel Trade Regulation

The Journal of World Investment & Trade, 2021, vol. 22, n° 1, pp 1-40, (in coll. with E.-U. Petersmann)

Books

Nach der Krise ist vor der Krise [After the Crisis is Before the Crisis]

Metropolis (in coll. with P. STEINBERG )

Die Haftung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft und ihrer Mitgliedsstaaten für WTO-Rechtsverletzungen aus juristischer und ökonomischer Perspektive [EU and Member States‘ Liability

Duncker & Humblot

Das Staatsverständnis von Charles de Gaulle [Charles de Gaulle’s understanding of the state]

Nomos

Niemandsland [No man’s land]

Les Éditions du Crieur Public

Chapters in edited books

Plan B - retreat from integration?

The Future Of The Eurozone, Alexander Schellinger & Philipp Steinberg, Transcript Verlag [Transcript Publishing], 175-188

Plan B – Rückbau der Integration [Plan B – Retreat from integration]

Die Zukunft Der Eurozone [The Future Of The Eurozone], Alexander Schellinger & Philipp Steinberg, Transcript Verlag [Transcript Publishing], 189-207

Streitbeilegung durch öffentlich-private Schiedsgerichte – Friedenssicherung oder Unruhestifter? [Dispute settlement through public-private dispute settlement]

Rechtsfrieden – Friedensrecht [Legal Peace - Law Of Peace], Jennifer Hölzlwimmer, Daniel Engel, Lukas Krönke, Annika Schmidl, Helena Bebert & Julia Faber, Nomos, 57-70

Auf dem Weg ins regenerative Zeitalter – Ein Offshore-Netz in der Nordsee [On the way to the regenerative age – An offshore grid in the North Sea]

Erneuerbare Energien [Renewable Energies], Karl J. Thomé-Kozmiensky & Michael Beckmann, TK Verlag, 5 , 231-237

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