Ingrid (Wuerth) Brunk

Ingrid (Wuerth) Brunk

Helen Strong Curry Chair in International Law

Research Interests

Territorial conflicts, state-owned enterprises, immunity, jurisdiction, human rights

Contact Me

Room 292B
(615) 322-2304
ingrid.wuerth@vanderbilt.edu

Biography

Ingrid Brunk is a leading scholar of foreign relations, public international law and transnational litigation. She joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2007, was appointed director of the International Legal Studies Program in 2009 and was appointed director of the Branstetter Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program in 2018. She was named to the newly endowed Helen Strong Curry Chair in International Law in 2015 and has served as the Law School’s Associate Dean for Research and in other leadership positions at Vanderbilt. She holds the Tarkington Chair for Teaching Excellence.

Professor Brunk is currently co-editor-in-chief of the American Journal of International Law. She is a member of the American Law Institute and was named as a Reporter for the Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States. She has received numerous honors and fellowships, including the Morehead Scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Fulbright Senior Scholar award, the German Chancellor's Fellowship, election to the German Society of International Law, election to the Order of the Coif, and many teaching awards. She clerked for Judge Jan E. DuBois in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and for Judge Jane Roth on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The Vanderbilt Law School Class of 2018 elected Brunk to give its commencement address. She is a contributing editor at Lawfare and a founding editor of the Transnational Litigation Blog.

Programs

Education

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

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