Kal Raustiala is the Promise Institute Distinguished Professor of Comparative and International Law at UCLA Law School and Professor at the UCLA International Institute. He currently serves as Director of the UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations and Director of the International and Comparative Law Program.

Professor Raustiala's research focuses on international law, international relations, and intellectual property. 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); and “The Fight Against China’s Bribe Machine,” Foreign Affairs, October 2021 (with Nicolas Barile). 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? The Evolution of Territoriality in American Law (Oxford, 2009). 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.

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