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).
Posts by Ingrid (Wuerth) Brunk
Enforcement of Arbitral Awards against Russia for Expropriation of Property in Crimea
The D.C. Circuit recently cleared the way for the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards against Russia for the expropriation of electricity and gas infrastructure in Crimea. Russia argued in the case, Stabil v. Russian Federation, that there was no jurisdiction because the arbitration exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) did not apply and…
Continue ReadingCert Grant in Climate Case
The Supreme Court has added a climate case to its docket. In Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, local governments sued fossil fuel companies in Colorado state court to recover for damages they sustained as a result of climate change. The complaint includes claims for public and private nuisance, civil conspiracy, unjust…
Continue ReadingProduct Use Restrictions as a Bar to Personal Jurisdiction
Exploding lithium battery cases against Samsung SDI Company, a South Korean defendant, have raised interesting personal jurisdiction issues. Litigants have not always done a good job of advancing the strongest factual and legal arguments, as a recent decision from the Fifth Circuit, Ethridge v. Samsung, makes clear. The cases, including B.D. by & through Myers…
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