Ingrid (Wuerth) Brunk
Vanderbilt Law School
Ingrid Brunk Wuerth (@WuerthIngrid) is the Helen Strong Curry Chair of International Law at Vanderbilt Law School where she is also serves as the Associate Dean for Research and the Director of the Branstetter Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program. 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. In April, 2022 she will become co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of International Law. Professor Wuerth 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 (5th ed. 2017).
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Supreme Court Coverage
The Court will hear oral argument today in Cisco Systems v. Doe I et al. to decide whether a U.S. corporation can be held liable under the Alien Tort Statue or the Torture Victim Protection Act for aiding and abetting violations of international human rights law. The argument, which is the only one scheduled today, starts…
Continue ReadingGlobal Developments in Class Action Litigation
A newly revamped French website aims to report on global developments in judicial mechanisms for collective redress. As it turns out, class actions and related collective actions are becoming increasingly common in many European countries, but they are also the subject of significant debate, as highlighted by the “News” page on the site, which also describes…
Continue ReadingImmunity, Consent, and Arbitration Treaties
If a state agrees to arbitrate a dispute with a private party – through, for example, the operation of a bilateral investment treaty – and then loses the arbitration, has it waived its immunity in a suit to enforce the resulting judgment if it is a party to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement…
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