Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
Russia Asserts Immunity in the DNC Case
Ingrid Wuerth Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 10:14 AM
Russia invoked sovereign immunity in the Democratic National Committee’s lawsuit against it.
Ingrid Wuerth is the Helen Strong Curry Professor of International Law at Vanderbilt Law School, where she also directs the international legal studies program. She is a leading scholar of foreign affairs, public international law and international litigation. She serves on the State Department’s Advisory Committee on Public International Law, she is a Reporter on the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Fourth) on U.S. Foreign Relations Law, and she is on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law. She has won Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt awards permitting her to spend substantial time in Germany and she is an elected member of the German Society of International Law.
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Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
How the Supreme Court Should Decide Jam v. International Finance Corp.
Ingrid Wuerth Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 9:00 AM
The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and the International Organizations Immunities Act should not be read to mean that the former governs all questions of the immunity of international organizations.
Scholarship
RIP Federal Common Law of Foreign Relations?
Ingrid Wuerth Wed, Aug 15, 2018, 12:59 PM
Wuerth argues that the traditional foundations for the federal common law of foreign relations have eroded, but that there is an alternative basis for the federal common law governing foreign official immunity.
U.S. Supreme Court
Could a U.S. State Sue Russia for Election-Related Hacking Under the Supreme Court’s Original Jurisdiction?
Ingrid Wuerth Fri, May 11, 2018, 7:00 AM
The argument is stronger than you think.
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
The DNC v. Russia: The Question of Foreign Sovereign Immunity
Ingrid Wuerth Sun, Apr 22, 2018, 9:00 AM
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has filed suit against Russia, among other actors, for hacking and leaking DNC communications in an effort to influence the 2016 election. Are Russia and its officials entitled to foreign sovereign immunity?
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
Sovereign Immunity of Foreign Central Bank Assets
Ingrid Wuerth Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 8:00 AM
A look at developments in domestic and international law regarding foreign sovereign immunity governing central bank assets.
Travel Ban
National Security Exceptionalism and the Travel Ban Litigation
Ganesh Sitaraman, Ingrid Wuerth Thu, Oct 12, 2017, 3:00 PM
As the lower courts take up the new challenges to President Trump’s September 24 proclamation, there is one argument that they should not accept: national security exceptionalism.