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The Evolution of Territoriality in American Law (Oxford, 2009). In 2016, he was the Yong Shook Lin Visiting Professor of Intellectual Property at the National University of Singapore. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he has served on the editorial boards of International Organization and the American Journal of International Law.
Kal Raustiala is the Promise Institute Distinguished Professor of Comparative and International Law at UCLA Law School and Professor at the UCLA International Institute.
The Evolution of Territoriality in American Law (Oxford, 2009). His research focuses on international law, international relations, and intellectual property. In 2016 Professor Raustiala was elected Vice President of the American Society of International Law. He has taught at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, Princeton University, the University of Chicago Law School, Melbourne University, Hebrew University, and the National University of Singapore.
He has written extensively on the Kyoto Protocol international treaty on climate change, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), United Nations environmental programs, disputes over genetically modified crops and human rights issues.
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His books include The Absolutely Indispensable Man: Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire (Oxford 2022); Global Governance in a World of Change (Barnett, Pevehouse, and Raustiala, eds, Cambridge, 2021); and Does the Constitution Follow the Flag?A graduate of Duke University, Professor Raustiala holds a J.D. from Harvard and Ph.D. from UC San Diego. His books include Global Governance in a World of Change (Michael Barnett, Jon Pevehouse, and Kal Raustiala, eds, Cambridge, 2021); The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation (Oxford, 2012) (with Christopher Sprigman), which has been translated into Chinese, Korean, and Japanese; and Does the Constitution Follow the Flag?
His recent publications include “Who Gets a Nation?” Noema (January 2024); “Ralph Bunche and the Age of Decolonization,” German Review of the United Nations (2024); “Why the United Nations Still Matters,” Foreign Affairs, June 2023 (with Viva Iemanja Jeronimo); “Multistakeholder Regulation and the Future of the Internet,” 75 Federal Communications Law Journal 2 (2023); “The Fight Against China’s Bribe Machine,” Foreign Affairs, October 2021 (with Nicolas Barile); and “Faster Fashion: The Piracy Paradox and its Perils,” 39 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, (Spring 2021)(with Christopher Sprigman).
His recent publications include “The Fight Against China’s Bribe Machine,” Foreign Affairs, October 2021 (with Nicolas Barile); “NGOs in International Treatymaking,” in The Oxford Guide to Treaties (Oxford 2020); “ Hollywood is Running Out of Villains,” Foreign Affairs, August 2020; “Innovation in the Information Age: The United States, China, and the Struggle Over Intellectual Property in the 21st Century,” Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (June 2020); and “The Second Digital Disruption: Streaming and the Dawn of Data-Driven Creativity,” NYU Law Review (2019, (with Christopher Sprigman).
Kal Raustiala is the Promise Institute Distinguished Professor of Comparative and International Law at UCLA Law School and Director of the UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations. Raustiala is an expert on international law, international relations and also intellectual property and copyright law.
Raustiala specializes in international cooperation on regulatory issues, particularly issues involving the environment.
A graduate of Duke University, Professor Raustiala holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and Ph.D. He currently serves as Director of the UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations and Director of the International and Comparative Law Program. From 2012-2015 he served as UCLA’s Associate Vice Provost for International Studies.
Professor Raustiala's research focuses on international law, international relations, and intellectual property.
The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation (Oxford, 2012) (with Christopher Sprigman), was translated into Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. His biography of UN diplomat, civil rights advocate, and UCLA alum Ralph Bunche, The Absolutely Indispensable Man: Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire, was published in 2023 by Oxford and won the Silver Medal from the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award.
In 2016 Professor Raustiala was elected Vice President of the American Society of International Law.
He has been a visiting professor at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, Princeton University, the University of Chicago Law School, Melbourne University in Australia, and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. in political science from the University of California, San Diego.
Prior to coming to UCLA, Professor Raustiala was a research fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, a Peccei Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems, and an assistant professor of politics at Brandeis University.
Prior to coming to UCLA, he was a research fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and an assistant professor of politics at Brandeis. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Professor Raustiala has served on the editorial boards of International Organization and the American Journal of International Law and is a frequent media contributor whose writing has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the New Republic, the New Yorker, Wired, Slate, the International Herald Tribune and Le Monde. Along with Catherine Amirfar of Debevoise & Plimpton, he is co-host of the American Society of International Law’s International Law Behind the Headlines podcast.
Kal Raustiala
Kal Raustiala is a professor in the UCLA School of Law as well as director of the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and associate vice provost of the UCLA International Institute.