Steiner Marc

Marc Steiner holds a Master of Law from the University of Basel and is admitted to the bars. He has delivered an expertise on Green Public Pro­cure­ment in Switzer­land (2006) and recently issued a short working paper on how to integrate social aspects in public procurement processes (2009, 2^nd version 2010). He has been appointed as a Judge to the Swiss Federal Admini­strative Court in 2007 (2nd Division, primarily in charge of economic matters including pub­lic procure­ment and competition). His comparative approach has been stimu­lated especially during two internships at the ECJ (1996 and 2008). He is also involved as a regular guest of the ILO Inter­national Training Centre ITCILO, Torino, in the spreading of knowledge about the legal aspects of Sustainable Public Procurement. Furthermore, Marc Steiner was invited to act as an expert during the public hearing of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee of the European Parliament on "Modernisation of Public Procurement" (title of the presentation: "Sustainable Public Procurement – Legal Background"; 24 May 2011). His research focuses on the legal implications of the inclusion of environmental and social policies in public procurement practices and the methods used when balancing interests in this context guided by the idea of a (at least to a certain extent) coherent legal order.