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. 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.). Since September 2024, he is general editor of the ZEuS. He is co-editor of the Springer series on “Economic Security in European Law and Policy” as well as the “Yearbook of EU External Relations Law“. His habilitation project focuses on administrative enforcement within the European multi-level system.

Together with Prof. Dr Wolfgang Alschner and Prof. Dr Patrick Leblond, Philipp Reinhold has co-authored a study for the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (Canada Office) on the topic “Canada-EU Economic Security Cooperation in an Era of Geoeconomic Tension – Strong Foundations to Build On”, which is available here. An accompanying interview at the Centre for European Studies at Carleton University is available here.

Philipp Reinhold is the rapporteur for Germany at the XXXII FIDE Congress in Helsinki in 2027 on the topic “Strategic Autonomy? Legal Construction of European Industrial Policies.”

Presentations (selection):

• Vom Handelsschutz zum Feindwirtschaftsrecht? – Rechtliche Implikationen einer risikobasierten Handelspolitik [From Trade Protection to Enemy Economy Law? – Legal Implications of a Risk-Based Trade Policy], presentation at the conference “XXVII. Wissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft für Europarecht”, 19 November 2026, Saarland University, Germany
• Handeln und Haften – EU-Sanktionsordnung trifft internationales Investitionsschutzrecht [Action and Liability – The EU Sanctions Regime Meets International Investment Protection Law], presentation at the conference “25. Jahrestagung der österreichischen Gesellschaft für Europarecht”, 18 September 2026, Innsbruck University, Austria
• Internationale Perspektive: Investitionsprüfung in der EU [International Perspective: Investment Screening in the EU], presentation at the workshop „Recht aktuell: Das neue Investitionsprüfgesetz (IPG): Erste Fixpunkte und offene Fragen der Umsetzung“, 3 September 2026, University of Basel, Switzerland
• The Ukraine support loan (legal basis and implementation structure), presentation at the Ninth Leuven – Salamanca Seminar: EU External Relations Law: Recent Developments, 1 Juli 2026, KU Leuven.
• EU and International Responses on Steel Overcapacity, 31 March 2026, University of Ottawa, Canada.
• Canada-EU Economic Security Cooperation in an Era of Geoeconomic Tension – Strong Foundations to Build On (together with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Alschner and Prof. Dr. Patrick Leblond), 30 March 2026, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Canada Office, Ottawa, Canada.
• Joint Action against Steel Overcapacity and International Economic Law, 25 March 2026, presentation at GFSEC Meeting at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, France.
• 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.

The complete list of presentations can be found here.

Publications (selection):

• Articles 38 and 39 of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, in: Bungenberg/Soltész (eds.), Foreign Subsidies Regulation, Beck C.H., Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft and Hart Publishing, 2026.
• Artikel 41 and 42 GRC, Artikel 216 AEUV (together with Prof. Dr. Marc Bungenberg), Artikel 221 and 222 AEUV, in: von der Groeben/Schwarze/Hatje/Terhechte (Hrsg.), Europäisches Unionsrecht, Band 1, 8. Auflage, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2026.
• The Control of Foreign Investment into Maritime Infrastructure in Europe, Journal of World Investment & Trade (JWIT), Special Issue, 27 (2026) (gemeinsam mit Prof. Dr. Christian Tietje, LL.M.), pp. 129–159.
• Between Protectionism and Partnership: History and Prospects of the European Union’s International Steel Relations With the United States, Global Trade and Customs Journal (GTCJ), Volume 21, Issue 2, 2026, (together with Prof. Dr. Marc Bungenberg, LL.M.), pp. 91–102.
• Canada-EU Economic Security Cooperation in an Era of Geoeconomic Tension: Strong Foundations to Build On, KAS Canada, März 2026 (gemeinsam mit Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Alschner und Prof. Dr. Patrick Leblond), 62 pages.
• 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, pp. 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, pp. 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 (together with 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.

Complete list of publications can be found here.

Teaching Activities (selection):

• Seminar on International Economic Law (Winter Semester 2026/2027).
• Law of International Organizations (Winter Semester 2026/2027).
• Legal Framework and Challenges of International Trade in Steel, CIRKLA Summer School 2026: Green Metallurgy: Case Study Steel – Decarbonisation – Circularity – Innovation, Saarbrücken, 8 September 2026.
• EU Raw Materials Policy, European Summer Course 2026: Resilience, Sustainability and Challenging Global Crisis – Exploring Law, Policy and Governance, Saarbrücken,21 July 2026.
• International Trade and Tariffs, guest lecture at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Frankfurt, 30 June 2026.
• Economic Security in European Law and Politics, workshop as part of the CEUS Early-Career Colloquium, Saarbrücken, 27 April 2026.
• Police Law (Summer semester 2026).
• 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)
• 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 (SummerSemester 2025).

The Complete list of teaching activities can be found here.