Ingrid Wuerth

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.