Dr. Philipp Reinhold

Dr. Philipp Reinhold is Lecturer and Senior Research Assistant (Akademischer Rat a.Z.) at Saarland University. His research focuses on German and European administrative law, public economic law (in particular German and EU trade law), EU external relations law and international economic law (in particular WTO law and international raw materials law). 

Philipp Reinhold studied law at the University of Bonn and at the University of Lausanne. He then worked inter alia as a legal analyst at the Monopolies Commission, where he was a key contributor to the chapter on the challenges posed by Chinese state capitalism as part of the XXIII Biennial Report (“Competition 2020”). In 2022, he completed his doctorate at Saarland University with a thesis on "Raw Materials Trade and Export Taxes". Since November 2023, Philipp Reinhold works at the Chair as a Lecturer and Senior Research Assistant (Akademischer Rat a.Z.). His habilitation project deals with administrative enforcement in the European multi-level system. Since September 2024, he is general editor of the ZEuS. 

In the winter semester 2025/2026, Philipp Reinhold has taken over the deputy professorship for European Law, Public International Law and Public Law at Saarland University.

Presentations (selection):

• Economic Security in European Law and Policy, presentation at the Delegation of the European Union to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, 18 November 2025, Bern, Switzerland.
• Drittstaatssubventionen als Gegenstand der Anti-Subventionspolitik der EU [Third-country subsidies as the subject of the EU's anti-subsidy policy], presentation at the conference „Handelsschutzinstrumente und (neue) Geopolitik“, organized by the Europa-Institut, World Trade Institute and cattwyk, 11 September 2025, Hamburg, Germany.
• De-risking à la Bruxelloise – The EU’s Securitized Trade Policy and the International Economic Legal Order, presentation at the Biennial Conference on International Economic Law der American Society of International Law (ASIL), 16 and 17 May 2025, Michigan, USA.
• Neue Entwicklungen in der EU-Investitionskontrolle [New developments in EU investment control], panel participation at the 2nd Conference on Investment Control by BDI and CELIS Institute German-Chapter, 27 and 28 March 2025, Berlin.
• Unionswerte im Recht der EU-Außenbeziehungen [Union values in the law of EU external relations], presentation at the annual colloquium  of the Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration e.V., 5 December 2024, Darmstadt.
• Panel participation on the topic of „Law of Treaties“ as part of the 7th Leuven-Salamanca Seminar on “EU External Relations Law: Recent Developments”, 4 July 2024 at KU Leuven.
• De-risking, Workshop at the FS Alumni Homecoming of Frankfurt of Finance & Management, 29 June 2024, Frankfurt.
• Practical Implementation of Outbound Investment Screening in the EU, panel participation at the workshop on “Foreign Direct Investment”, organized by Latham Watkins/Saarland University, 8 February 2024, Frankfurt.
• Development of Investment Screening in Germany, presentation at the conference on „(Open) Strategic Autonomy“ organized by Bern University/Prager Dreyfuss/Saarland University, 7 September 2023, Bern.
• Rohstoffhandel und Exportabgaben [raw materials trade and export taxes], presentation at the Working Group on Raw Materials Law of the German branch of the International Law Association, 7 July 2023, Frankfurt.

The complete list of presentations can be found here.

Publications (selection):

• Das Außenwirtschaftsrecht im Spannungsfeld zwischen Kompetenzverteilung, wertegeleiteter Handelspolitik und der Außenwirtschaftsfreiheit [Foreign trade law in the tension between the distribution of competences, value-based trade policy and the freedom of foreign trade], Archiv des öffentlichen Rechts (AöR) 3 (50) 2025, S. 373–474.
• The Investment Relationship between Singapore and the EU in Times of Economic Security in: Bjorklund/Bungenberg/Chi/Jusoh/Ranjan/Rustambekov (eds.), Asian Yearbook of International Economic Law 2024, Springer 2025, S. 277–300.
• International Economic Relations as a Risk: The EU’s Economic Security Strategy and the World Trading System, Global Trade and Customs Journal (GTCJ), Volume 20, Number 2, 2025, 110–117 (zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Michael Hahn, LL.M.).
• Strategic Autonomy and Trade Defence: The Case of Cross-Country Subsidies, Journal of World Trade 58, no. 6 (2024), 919–940.
• Die Neue Geopolitische Dimension der Wettbewerbs- und Handelspolitik der EU [The new geopolitical dimension of Eu competition and trade law], XXX. International Federation of European Law (FIDE) Congress, Europarecht Beiheft (EuR-Beiheft), (2) 2024, 57–140 (together with Prof. Dr. Marc Bungenberg, LL.M. and Stefan Schelhaas, LL.M.).
• Rohstoffhandel und Exportabgaben - Zum Umgang mit Exportabgaben auf Rohstoffe innerhalb des welthandelsrechtlichen Mehrebenensystems am Beispiel der Europäischen Union [Trade in raw materials and export taxes - On the handling of export taxes on raw materials within the multi-level system of world trade law using the example of the European Union], Dissertation (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2023), 335 pages.
• Investitionskontrollrecht [Investment Control Law] (together with Prof. Dr. Marc Bungenberg, LL.M.) (Beck Verlag, 2023), 304 pages.
• Difficult Times in Investment Relations Between China and Germany: The Cases of Siltronic/GlobalWafers and COSCO/HHLA, in: Bungenberg, Marc/Chi, Manjiao/Bjorklung, Andrea K., Asian Yearbook of International Economic Law, Springer 2023, 3–21 together with Prof. Dr. Marc Bungenberg, LL.M.).
• Reform des Investitionskontrollrechts – Stärkung von Effektivität, Effizienz und Rechtsstaatlichkeit [Reform of investment control law - strengthening effectiveness, efficiency and the rule of law], Zeitschrift für das Recht der Außenwirtschaft, Sanktionen und Auslandsinvestitionen (ZASA) (6) 2023, 314–320 (together with Prof. Dr. Marc Bungenberg, LL.M.).
• Sanktionsdurchsetzung im Mehrebenensystem am Beispiel der EU-Russlandsanktionen – Teil 1 und Teil 2 [Enforcement of sanctions in the multi-level system using the example of EU-Russia sanctions - Part 1 and Part 2], Zeitschrift für das Recht der Außenwirtschaft, Sanktionen und Auslandsinvestitionen (ZASA) (1) 2023, 15–20 and (2) 2023, 77–82 (together with Prof. Dr. Marc Bungenberg, LL.M.).
• Kommentierung der Anti-Folter-Verordnung [Commentary on the Anti-Torture Regulation], in: Krenzler/Herrmann/Niestedt (eds.), EU-Außenwirtschafts- und Zollrecht, Beck Verlag, 20. Ergänzungslieferung, September 2022, 135 pages (together with Prof. Dr. Marc Bungenberg, LL.M.).
• European Trade Policy and the Regulation of Subsidies: What can we expect from the EU-Australia FTA?, in: Bungenberg, Marc/Mitchell, Andrew (eds.), The Australia-European Union Free Trade Agreement, Springer 2022, 203–219.
• Zum Begriff des level playing field im Wettbewerbs- und Außenwirtschaftsrecht der Europäischen Union [The concept of a level playing field in European Union competition and foreign trade law], in: Heger, Alexander/Gourdet, Sascha (eds.), Fairen Wettbewerb in der Europäischen Union sichern, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft 2022, 145–174 (together with Dr. Max Erdmann, M.A.).
• Kommentierung von Art. 2 AD-GVO 2016 [Commentary on Article 2 Basic Anti-Dumping Regulation], in: Krenzler/Herrmann/Niestedt (Hrsg.), EU-Außenwirtschafts- und Zollrecht, Beck Verlag, 17. Edition, April 2021, 122 pages (together with Prof. Dr. Marc Bungenberg, LL.M.).
• Significant Distortions Under Article 2(6a) BADR: Three Years of Commission Practice, Global Trade and Customs Journal (GTCJ) (5) 2021, 193–202 (together with Dr. Pieter Van Vaerenbergh, LL.M.).
• State capitalism and level playing field, European State Aid Law Quarterly (4) 2020, 403–417 (together with Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kühling, LL.M. und Prof. Dr. Thomas Weck, LL.M.).

Complete list of publications can be found here.

Teaching Activities (selection):

• Legal Foundations of the European Union, CEUS guest lecture at Saarland University, 12 and 13 November 2025.
• European Law (Winter semester 2025/2026).
• Public International Law (Winter semester 2025/2026)
• Seminar European and Public International Law: „New Challenges in EU External Relations Law“  (Winter semester 2025/2026)
• Doctoral colloquium European Law, 9 und 10 Juli 2025.
• European Law II: Internal market, fundamental freedoms and EU competition law (Summer semester 2025).
• European Law III: Foreign Trade Law (Summer semester 2025).
• International Economic Law (Summer semester 2025).
• International Law of Trade in Raw Materials, Spring School 2025: „Secure and Sustainable Raw Materials Trade and Policy“, 28 April 2025.
• Enforcement of EU law, guest lecture at the University of Berne, 5 November 2024.
• Tutorial Internal Market Law (Winter semester 2024/2025)
• New EU Foreign Trade Law (Summer semester 2024)
• Tutorial International Economic Law (Summer semester 2024)
• Dispute Settlement under EU-Free Trade Agreements, presentation at the Europa-Institut/Tashkent State University Spring School 2024: "Dispute Settlement & the Rule of Law", 18 April 2024, Saarbrücken.

The Complete list of teaching activities can be found here.