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

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 Mutualization of Sovereign Debt: Comparing the American Past and the European Present

Journal of Common Market Studies, September 2015, vol. 53, n° 5, pp 1110-1125,

Gesetzgebung und Empirie [Legislation and empiricism]

Der Staat, 2015, vol. 54, n° 2, pp 267-289,

Burqas and Bans: The Wearing of Religious Symbols under the European Convention of Human Rights

Cambridge Journal for International and Comparative Law, 2015, vol. 4, n° 1, pp 29-52,

Renewable Energy and the Free Movement of Goods

Journal of Environmental Law, July 2015, vol. 27, n° 1, pp 1-16, (in coll. with R. Bruckmann)

Evidenz als Rechtskriterium. Versuch einer dogmatischen Verortung [Evidence as legal criterion]

Archiv des öffentlichen Rechts, 2015, vol. 140, n° 3, pp 367-414,

Price Undertakings in EU Anti-dumping Proceedings – an Instrument of the Past?

Journal of Economic Integration, July 2014, vol. 29, n° 1, pp 165-187,

(Kein) Änderungsbedarf im Energie- und Netzausbaurecht aufgrund der neuen TEN-E-Verordnung? [The need to modify energy law due to the TEN-E regulation]

Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt, 2014, vol. 129, pp 488-495, (in coll. with S. DIETRICH)

Limiting Jurisdictional Fragmentation in International Trade Disputes

Journal of International Dispute Settlement, July 2014, vol. 5, n° 2, pp 372-405, (in coll. with P. A. Lanyi)

The Treatment of Confidential Information in WTO Dispute Settlement Proceedings

American Review of International Arbitration, 2013, vol. 24, pp 591-608,

Books

Chapters in edited books

Proceedings

Working papers

Scientific articles

Compliance effects of sovereign debt cuts

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

Ein CO2-Preis für Energieträger [Pricing CO2]

JuristenZeitung, 2019, vol. 74, n° 23, pp 1139-1149, (in coll. with M. VALTA)

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,

Fiscal rules and structural reforms

International Review of Law and Economics, June 2019, vol. 58, pp 34-42, (in coll. with R. Sajedi)

Books

Chapters in edited books

The effect of WTO law in the legal order of the European Community: a judicial protection deficit or a real-political solution, or both?,

Michael Lang, Judith Herdin & Ines Hofbauer, Linde, 49-72

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