Prof. Dr. Dr. Armin Steinbach

Research Focus

Law & Economics; International, European and Constitutional Law; Economic and Financial Policy

Since 2021: Full Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at HEC Paris
2020-2021: Head of Fiscal Policy Division, German Ministry of Finance, Berlin
2017-2020: Head of Economic Policy Division, German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, Berlin
2014-2020: Gwilym Gibbon Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University
2014-2017: Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
2012-2013: Economic policy adviser to Frank-Walter Steinmeier, current German Federal President
2012-2013: Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA)
Since 2009: Official of the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, Berlin
2008-2009: Attorney-at-law, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Brussels
2008: Dispute Settlement Lawyer, World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva

2017: Habilitation, University of Bonn
2013: Ph.D. in Economics (Dr. rer. pol.), University Erfurt
2008: Second Legal State Board Examination, admission to the bar
2007: Ph.D. in Law (Dr. iur.), Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, scholar German National Academic Foundation
2004: M.Sc. in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirt), Humboldt-University Berlin
2004: LL.M. in Comparative and International Law, Free University Brussels, scholar German Academic Exchange Service
2003: First Legal State Board Examination

EU Law and Economics, Oxford University Press 2024, forthcoming
Debt-financing the EU, Common Market Law Review, August 2024
Constitutionalism and Transnational Governance Failures, Brill Nijhoff, 2024 (mit Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann), Open Access
L’union budgétaire et de transfert sans limites juridiques?, in: 4 Revue Trimestrielle de Droit européen (Dezember 2023) 683-697
The EU’s Turn to ‘Strategic Autonomy’: Leeway for Policy Action and Points of Conflict, 34 European Journal of International Law (2023), 973-1006