Main Focus
- Labour law and employment policy
- Social and economic policy
- European/EU law
- Legal history of the European Union
- Legal history of labour law
Project
Curriculum Vitae
Marc Steiert works at the interface of European law, labour law and their legal history. He studied law and social sciences in Nancy, Paris, Vancouver and Florence, with a particular focus on their interdisciplinary perspectives. He received a PhD in 2024 from the European University Institute with an analysis of the EU’s changing role in regulating young people’s transitions to work.
Academic career and education
Since Feb. 2026
Research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory.
Jul. 2025–Jan. 2026
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen at the Centre for European, Comparative, and Constitutional Legal Studies.
Jan. 2024–Dec. 2025
Research associate at the European University Institute (EUI, Florence) in the project ShaPE - The Social Partners as Makers and Shapers of Social Europe: Discovering Foundations and Futures and research assistant to the EUI President.
Sep. 2019–May 2024
PhD researcher and LLM candidate (Sep. 2019 – May 2020) at the EUI with a research stay (Nov.-Dec. 2022) at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg.
May–Aug. 2019
Trainee at the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, in the EU-K department responsible for the coordination of the EU legislative process.
Sep. 2017–May 2019
Master's degree in Economic Law – Global Governance (summa cum laude) at the Institut des Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po Paris).
Sep. 2014–Aug. 2017
Franco-German Bachelor's degree in Social and Political Sciences (summa cum laude) at the Nancy campus of the Institut des Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po Paris) with a year abroad at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Sep. 2016 – May 2017).
Sep. 2013–May 2014
Federal voluntary service in mobile social services at the Arbeiterwohlfahrt Freiburg im Breisgau (Workers' Welfare Association Freiburg).
Other
- 2021–2023: Co-founder and coordinator of the civic engagement initiative ‘Ponte Europa - Bridging Academia and Civil Society’ to promote political education and debate on European integration. Projects included information events and discussion panels on European law and politics in Florence, and projects on young people's political education and participation.
- 2020–2022: Managing editor of the European Journal of Legal Studies.
- 2019–2022: Doctoral scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
- 2017–2019: Study scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.