Ingrid Brunk Wuerth

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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

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, Chapel Hill
J.D., University of Chicago

Biography

Ingrid Wuerth's research focuses on foreign affairs, international law and comparative constitutional law. She has written broadly on international law in domestic courts and U.S. foreign relations law, including articles published in the Chicago, Michigan, Northwestern, Notre Dame and Harvard International law journals. She is currently working on an article on foreign relations and federal common law and 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 and was appointed director of Vanderbilt's International Legal Studies Program in fall 2009. She 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 on the U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, for Judge Jane R. Roth on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and practiced at Dechert Price & Rhoads 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; in both capacities she served as a research fellow in Berlin, Germany. Professor Wuerth is currently 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.

Representative Publications


Books

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

Articles

  • “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)

  • An Originalism for Foreign Affairs? 53 Saint Louis Law Journal 5 (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)

Working Papers

  • “Pinochet Revisited”



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