Vanderbilt Law School :: Faculty-Detail

Ingrid Brunk Wuerth

Professor of Law .Director, International Legal Studies Program

Voice: 615-322-2304
Fax: 615-322-6631
Email: ingrid.wuerth@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 292B
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Area(s) of Expertise

Public 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, public international law, comparative constitutional law

Education

B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
J.D., University of Chicago

Biography

Ingrid Wuerth is a leading scholar of foreign affairs and international law in domestic courts. Her broad intellectual interests also include the German Constitution, comparative constitutional law, and methodology. She has written extensively on these topics, including articles published in the Chicago, Michigan, Northwestern and Notre Dame law reviews, the Harvard and Virginia journals of international law, and the American Journal of International Law. She is currently working on several projects on jurisdiction and immunity in public international law as well as a co-authored casebook on comparative constitutional law to be published by Aspen Publishers. Professor Wuerth joined Vanderbilt's law faculty in 2007 from the University of Cincinnati College of Law. She was appointed director of Vanderbilt's International Legal Studies Program in fall 2009 and has won several teaching awards. She was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and 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 Judge Jan E. DuBois of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, for Judge Jane R. Roth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and practiced at Dechert in Philadelphia. In 1997 she was named a Chancellor's Scholar of the Alexander Humboldt Foundation, and she was named a Fulbright Senior Scholar in 2007, and a German Academic Exchange Council Fellow in 2011, permitting her to spend several semesters as a research fellow in Berlin, Germany, at both the Humboldt University and the Free University. Professor Wuerth has served as the co-chair of the American Society of International Law's Interest Group on International Law in the Domestic Courts and was a member of the program committee for the American Society of International Law's 2011 Annual Meeting. She is also a member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on Public International Law.

Representative Publications

Books

Comparative Constitutional Law: Cases and Context (with Manuel Cepeda, Jacob Cogan and Patrick Macklem) (Aspen Publishers) (forthcoming 2012)

Articles

"Subsequent Practice and Treaty Interpretation: Considerations of Domestic Constitutional Law" in Treaties and Subsequent Practice (Georg Nolte, ed.) (forthcoming 2013, Oxford University Press)
"International Law in Domestic Courts and the Jurisdictional Immunities Case," 13 Melbourne Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2012)
"Reassessing Pinochet's Legacy," 106 American Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2012)
"The Extraterritorial Application of the Alien Tort State," Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law (forthcoming 2012)
"Foreign Sovereign Immunity at Home and Abroad," 44 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (2012) (symposium epilogue)
“Foreign Sovereign Immunity Determinations in U.S. Courts: The Case Against the State Department,” 51 Virginia Journal of International Law 915 (2011)
“The Alien Tort Statute and Federal Common Law: A New Approach,” 85 Notre Dame Law Review 1931 (2010) (symposium)
"The Captures Clause," 76 Chicago Law Review 1683 (2009)
"Medellin: The New, New Formalism?", 13 Lewis & Clark Law Review 1 (2009) (symposium)

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