Professor Wuerth graduated from the University of Chicago Law School where she served as a staff member of Law Review and where she was admitted to the Order of the Coif. Following law school, Professor Wuerth clerked for the Hon. Jan E. DuBois, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and also served as law clerk to the Hon. Jane R. Roth, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The Alexander von Humbodt Association awarded Professor Wuerth a research fellowship in 1997. Before joining the College of Law as Assistant Professor of Law in 2000, Professor Wuerth practiced law with Dechert, Price & Rhoads.

Professor Wuerth's research interests include foreign affairs and international law in constitutional interpretation. Her work on the "enemy combatant" cases was cited by Justice Scalia in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 124 S.Ct. 2633, 2667 (2004) (Scalia, J., dissenting), and her work on international law and authorizations for the use of force became the basis for an amicus brief submitted to U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in the case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (brief pdf).

She has spoken at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, the Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Houston Law Center, St. Louis University School of Law, and the University of Virginia School of Law, among other schools.

Professor Wuerth won the Goldman Prize for Teaching Excellence in both 2001 and 2004 and she won the Schott Law Review Publication Prize in 2004.

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Publications

International Law and Constitutional Interpretation:  The Commander-in-Chief Clause Reconsidered, Michigan Law Review (forthcoming).

"Ex parte Milligan" and "Guantanamo" appearing in the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (forthcoming 2007) (solicited contribution).

Die (Ohn)Macht des Völkerrechts, Der Tagesspiegel, August 28, 2006 (solicited opinion piece in major German newspaper).

International Law as an Interpretive Norm, American Society of International Law Proceedings of the 99th Annual Meeting (2006).

Authorizations for the Use of Force, International Law, and the Charming Betsy Canon, 46 Boston College Law Review 293 (2005).

The President's Power to Detain ‘Enemy Combatants': Modern Lessons from Mr. Madison's Forgotten War, 98 Northwestern University Law Review (2004) (cited at Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 124 S.Ct. 2633, 2667 (2004) (Scalia, J. dissenting opinion).

The Dangers of Deference:  International Claim Settlement by the President, 44 Harvard International Law Journal 1 (2003).