Vanderbilt University Law School
Ingrid Brunk Wuerth
Professor of Law
Voice: 615-322-2304
Fax: 615-322-6631
Email: ingrid.wuerth@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 292B
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Area(s) of Expertise
International law, foreign relations law, international litigation, civil procedure, the German Constitution
Research Interest(s)
War powers, methodology and foreign relations law, international law in domestic courts, comparative constitutional law
Education
B.A., University of North Carolina
J.D., University of Chicago
Biography
Ingrid Wuerth's research focuses on foreign affairs, international law, and comparative constitutional law. She joined Vanderbilt's law faculty in 2007 from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she twice won the Goldman Prize for Teaching Excellence. She visited at Vanderbilt in the spring of 2007. Professor Wuerth graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, where she served on the Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Jan E. DuBois, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and for the Honorable Jane R. Roth, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and practiced at Dechert, Price and Rhoads in Philadelphia. In 1997 she was named a Chancellor's Scholar of the Alexander Humboldt Foundation. In that capacity, she has served as a research fellow at both the Free University (2006) and the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany (1997-98). She spent the summer and fall of 2007 working at the Free University as a Fulbright Scholar. Professor Wuerth serves as the co-chair of the American Society of International Law's Interest Group on International Law in the Domestic Courts.
Representative Publications
Articles
"The Captures Clause," 76 Chicago Law Review (forthcoming 2009)
"Medellin: The New, New Formalism?", 13 Lewis & Clark Law Review 1 (2009) (symposium)
An Originalism for Foreign Affairs? 53 Saint Louis Law Journal (2008) (symposium)
"International Law and Constitutional Interpretation: The Commander-in-Chief Clause Reconsidered," 106 Michigan Law Review 61 (2007)
"Die (Ohn) Macht des Völkerrechts," Der Tagesspiegel, August 28, 2006 (solicited opinion piece in major German newspaper)
"Authorizations for the Use of Force, International Law, and the Charming Betsy Canon," 46 Boston College Law Review 293 (2005)
"The President’s Power to Detain ‘Enemy Combatants': Modern Lessons from Mr. Madison’s Forgotten War," 98 Northwestern University Law Review (2004) (cited at Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 124 S.Ct. 2633, 2667 (2004), Scalia, J. dissenting opinion)
"The Dangers of Deference: International Claim Settlement by the President," 44 Harvard International Law Journal 1 (2003)
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