Ingrid Brunk
Vanderbilt Law School
Ingrid Brunk (formerly Ingrid Wuerth) is the Helen Strong Curry Chair of International Law at Vanderbilt Law School. She was a Co-Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law and she has served as a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Law as well as co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of International Law. Professor Brunk has written extensively on foreign relations law, transnational litigation, and public international law, including for the Harvard Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, and the American Journal of International Law. She is the co-author of U.S. Foreign Relations Law: Cases, Materials and Practice Exercises.
Posts by Ingrid Brunk
Two New Nazi Art Cases
Two new cases have been filed seeking the return of artwork that was taken from Jewish people during the Nazi era. Both cases were brought under a 2024 California law, Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 338.2, which allows for the filing of claims to “recover personal property stolen due to political persecution” within “six years…
Continue ReadingNatural Resources, Public Policy, and the New York Convention
Georgia (the country) recently argued in Enka Renewables LLC v. Georgia against the enforcement of an arbitral award that would purportedly violate U.S. public policy. Georgia relied on the U.S. public policy in favor of allowing other countries to control the natural resources within their own sovereign territories. But does the United States have such…
Continue ReadingDue Process and in rem Jurisdiction
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held in United States v. Nasri that Fifth Amendment due process is violated if a federal court exercises in rem jurisdiction but lacks custody or constructive control over the property. The district court, Judge Hayes (S.D. Cal.), had held to the contrary, and Judge Bennett dissented from the panel…
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