Kal Raustiala

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Positions

Professor, UCLA School of Law & UCLA International INstitute, 2004-
Director, Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations, UCLA, 2007-
Acting Professor of Law, 2000-2004

Bemis Visiting Professor of International Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization, Harvard Law School, Winter 2008 & Winter 2005

Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, Fall 2004

Visiting Professor, University of Chicago Law School, Fall 2003

Visiting Professor, Princeton University Dept. of Politics and Fellow, Princeton Program on Law & Public Affairs, 2002-3

Assistant Professor of Politics, Brandeis University, 1995-6

Harvard Law School, J.D., 1999

University of California, San Diego, Ph.D. in Political Science, 1996

Duke University, A.B. in Political Science, 1988 

Empire and Extraterritoriality in 20th Century America, 40 SOUTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW, (2011).

Al Maqaleh v. Gates, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 104, 4 (Oct., 2010).

Extraterritoriality in Comparative Perspective:  Bagram and Beyond, PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ANNUAL MEETING (ASIL, 2010).

Toward a Post-Kyoto Climate Architecture:  A Political Analysis (with Robert O. Keohane), in Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins, eds., IMPLEMENTING ARCHITECTURES FOR AGREEMENT: ADDRESSING GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE POST-KYOTO WORLD (Cambridge Universtiy Press, 2009).

Toward a Post-Kyoto Climate Architecture:  A Political Analysis (with Robert O. Keohane), INTERNATIONAL UN GLOBAL COMPACT YEARBOOK (Maconodo Group, 2009).

DOES THE CONSTITUTION FOLLOW THE FLAG?  THE EVOLUTION OF TERRITORIALITY IN AMERICAN LAW (Oxford University Press, 2009);

• Reviewed in Foreign Affairs; The New Republic; American Journal of International Law; Law and Politics Book Review, International Organization, Perspectives on Politics, and Law & History Review.  Recipient of the Honorable Mention for the 2011 Cerfiticate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship, American Society of International law.

Toward a Post-Kyoto Climate Architecture:  A Political Analysis (with Robert O. Keohane), in Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins, ed, POST-KYOTO INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE POLICY: SUMMARY FOR POLICYMAKERS (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

The Piracy Paradox Revisited (with Chris  Springman), 61 STANFORD LAW REVIEW 1201, (2009).

Transnational Networks: Past and Present, THE INTERNATIONAL LAWYER (Symposium Issue) (2009).

The Uneasy Case for Intellectual Property Rights in Traditional Knowledge (with Stephen R. Munzer), 26 CARDOZO ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL (2009).

Conflict Alimentarius: Geographic Indications in International Trade Law, (with Stephen R. Munzer), AGRICULTURA, ISTITUAZONI, MERCATI: RIVISTA DE DIRECTTO AGROALIMENTARE E DELL AMBIENTE (in English, 2008).

The Global Struggle Over Geographic Indications, (with Stephen R. Munzer), 18 European Journal of InternationaL Law 337, (2007).

Comment on Marchetti, in Wto Law and Developing Countries (George Bermann and Petros Mavroidis, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Where IP Isn't, (with Chris Sprigman), VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW IN BRIEF (January 2007).

Density and Conflict in International Intellectual Property Law: A Comment on Towards a Human Rights Approach to Intellectual Property, Symposium on Intellectual Property and Social Justice, UC DAVIS LAW REVIEW (2006).

The Piracy Paradox: The Puzzling Irrelevance of Intellectual Property in Fashion Design, (with Chris Sprigman), 92 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 1687, (December 2006);

•  Reprinted in Andean Yearbook of Intellectual Rights, (2008).
  

Refining the Limits of International Law, Symposium on Goldsmith and Posner, The Limits of International Law, 34 Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law (2006).

The Evolution of Territoriality: International Relations and American Law, in Territoriality and Conflict in an age of globalization (Miles Kahler & Barbara Walter eds., 2006, Cambridge University Press);

• Excerpted in The Forum: Citizenship at Home and Abroad, 7 INTERNATIONAL STUDIES REVIEW, (Fall 2005).
  

Review of Alfred Aman, Jr., The Democracy Deficit: Taming Globalization Through Law Reform,  Journal of Legal Education, (December 2005).

Form and Substance in International Agreements, 99 American Journal of International Law, (July 2005);

• Awarded the 2005 Francis Deak Prize by the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law.

The Geography of Justice, 73 Fordham Law Review 2501, (May 2005).

The Regime Complex for Plant Genetic Resources (with David Victor), 58 International Organization 277, (2004);

• Reprinted in International law and international relations: an International ORganization Reader (Beth Simmons and Richard Steinberg, eds, forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Police Patrols and Fire Alarms in the NAFTA Environmental Side Agreement, (Symposium issue on NAFTA) 26 Loyola Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review, (2004).

Citizen Submissions and Treaty Review in the NAAEC, (John Knox and David Markell, eds., The North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation: An Evaluation, Stanford University Press, 2003).

Precaution in the Federal Legislation of the NAFTA Parties, 10 NoRth American Environmental Law & Policy, (2003);

• Translated into Italian in Agricultura, Istituazoni, Mercati: Rivista de Diretto Agroalimentare e Dell Ambiente, (Sommario 2/2004).

The Architecture of International Cooperation: Transgovernmental Networks and the Future of International Law, 43 Virginia Journal of International Law, 1 Fall 2002;

• Excerpted in Making Law Work: Environmental Compliance and Sustainable Development (Durwood Zaelke, et al, eds., 2005).

Compliance, International Relations, and International Law, in The Handbook of International Relations (Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth Simmons, eds., 2002) (with Anne-Marie Slaughter).

Review Processes in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Review of Implementation, Compliance, and Effectiveness in Ten Treaties (UN Environment Programme, 2002); 

• Excerpted in Making Law Work: Environmental Compliance and Sustainable Development (Durwood Zaelke, et al, eds., 2005).

Remote-Sensing and Multilateral Environmental Agreements, Environment, (January-February 2002) (with Alex de Sherbinin and Karen Kline).

Non-State Actors and Climate Change, in International Relations and the Climate Change Regime (Detlef Sprinz and Urs Luterbacher, eds., 2001, MIT Press).

Sovereignty and Multilateralism, in Symposium: Trends in Global Governance: Do They Threaten American Sovereignty? 2 Chicago Journal of International Law, (Fall 2000).

Compliance & Effectiveness in International Regulatory Cooperation in Symposium: Compliance with International Intellectual Property Treaties, 32 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law,  (Summer 2000);   

• Excerpted in Making Law Work: Environmental Compliance and Sustainable Development, (Durwood Zaelke, et al, eds., 2005).

Global Environmental Outlook 2000 (UN Environment Programme) (contributor to treaty section).

Review of Oran Young, Global Governance and World Affairs, 94 American Journal of International Law 816, (Oct. 2000).

Law, Liberalization, and International Narcotics Trafficking, 32 New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 1, (Fall 1999).

The Implementation and Effectiveness of International Environmental Commitments: Theory and Practice (David G. Victor, Kal Raustiala, and Eugene Skolnikoff, eds., 1998, MIT Press).

Introduction and Overview, (with David G. Victor and Eugene Skolnikoff).

Conclusions, (with David G. Victor).

Institutional Frameworks for Political Action, in Human Choice and Climate Change: Volume I: The Societal Framework (Steve Rayner and Elizabeth Malone, eds., 1998), (with Timothy O’Riordan, et al).

The “Participatory Revolution” in International Environmental Law, 21 Harvard Environmental Law Review 537, (1997).

Domestic Institutions and International Regulatory Cooperation: Comparative Responses to the Global Biodiversity Regime 49 World Politics 482, (1997);

• Reprinted in Ronald Mitchel, ed., International Environmental Politics, (Sage, 2009).

The Domestic Politics of Biodiversity Protection in the US and UK, in The Internationalization of Environmental Protection (Elizabeth Economy and Miranda Schreurs, eds., 1997).

States, NGOs, and International Environmental Institutions, 41 International Studies Quarterly 719, (1997).

Democracy, Sovereignty, and the Slow Pace of International Negotiations, 8 International Environmental Affairs 3, (1996).

International “Enforcement of Enforcement” Under the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation, 36 Virginia Journal of International Law 721, (1996).

Biodiversity Since Rio: The Future of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Environment, (May 1996), (with David G. Victor).

The Political Implications of the Enforcement Provisions of the NAFTA Environmental Side Agreement, 25 Environmental Law 31, (1995);

• Excerpted in Folsom, Gordon, and Lopez, NAFTA: A Problem-Oriented Coursebook, (2000).

Op-Eds & Commentary

"It's Undiplomatic: The U.S.-Pakistan spat over Raymond Davis, an American accused of killing two men in Lahore, reveals the arcane world of diplomatic immunity," 
Los Angeles Times, March 3, 2011

"Why Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Fashion", New York times (Aug. 2010) (with Christopher Sprigman)

"A Troubling State", Los Angeles Times, Sunday Opinion, April 2010 (with Lara Stemple)

"Red Carpet copycats," The Huffington Post, March 4, 2010

"Power in the Post American World," The Huffington Post, Sept 12, 2009

"Is Bagram the New Guantanamo? Habeas and Maqaleh v. Gates," ASIL Insights, June 18, 2009

"The New Guantanamo," The Huffington Post, May 22, 2009

"Iraq Withdrawal--Not So Fast," Los Angeles Times, January 3, 2009

"How Copyright Law Could Kill the Fashion Industry," The New Republic Online, www.tnr.com, August 14, 2007 (with Christopher Sprigman);

• Translated into Spanish in La Gaceta de Los Negocios (Spain), September 17, 2007 
  

"Governance and Government in a Globalized World," Cato Unbound, http://www.catounbound.org/, June 13 2006

"A Bill of Rights Without Borders," Los Angeles Times, June 9, 2007

"George W. Bush, Multilateralist" The New Republic Online, www.tnr.com, March 22, 2007

"The Boundaries of the Bill of Rights," Los Angeles Times, Dec 15, 2005.

"A Viewer's Guide to the Saddam Trial: Part II" The New Republic Online, www.tnr.com, December 14, 2005

"A Viewer's Guide to the Saddam Trial: Part I" The New Republic Online, www.tnr.com, December 5, 2005

"The New Bipartisanship," The New Republic Online, www.tnr.com, July 7, 2005 

"Church and State," The New Republic Online, www.tnr.com, April 28 2005

"Fashion Victims," The New Republic Online, www.tnr.com, March 15 2005.

"Restoring Iraqi Sovereignty," www.findlaw.com, June 23, 2004.

"Ruling Hits California Like a Truck," Los Angeles Times, June 16, 2004 (with Jody Freeman)

"US May Not Be Imperial, But it Does Have An Empire," International Herald Tribune, July 2, 2003.

“Does the Constitution Follow the Flag?: Iraq, the War on Terror, and the Reach of the Law” www.findlaw.com., April 9, 2003; reprinted on www.cnn.com’s Law Center Apr. 15, 2003 and in UCLA Law Magazine, Winter 2004.

 “Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Why the US Should Oppose Extending Stringent Intellectual Property Rights on Wine and Spirit Names to Other Products, www.findlaw.com , Dec. 12, 2002 (with Christopher Sprigman)

"Turning Our Backs on the World?" San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 26, 2002  

"Free Trade Fuels Illicit Drug Flow" LA Daily Journal, Mar. 14, 2001

"Dream Trek (Dreamwerks Production Group can Sue the Studio Dreamworks)", LA Daily Journal, June 29, 1998

Fellowships

Princeton University, Law and Public Affairs Fellow, 2002-3

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Peccei Scholar, 1995

The Brookings Institution, Brookings Research Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Program, 1994-1995

University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation  (IGCC) Dissertation Fellow 1993-1995

Professional Memberships & Activities

Council on Foreign Relations

American Society of International Law

Pacific Council on International Policy

Editorial Board, AMERICAN JOUNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

Editorial Board, International Organization

Advisory Board, Journal of Environment & Development 

Advisory Board, SSRN International Institutions Journal

Peer reviewer for National Science Foundation; oxford university press; Cambridge University Press; Princeton University Press; Yale University Press; Kluwer Law International Press; Journal of Legal Studies; International Organization; WORLD POLITICS; European journal of international relations;  International Studies Quarterly; nordic journal of international law; Review of International Political Economy; Global Environmental Politics; Journal of Environment & Development; the Graemeyer Award

Advisory board, Council of Foreign Relations Special Report on 2010 International Criminal Court Review Conference

Doctoral Committees

 Etienne Poliquin, UCLA Political Science

James Paradise, UCLA Political Science

Kuyoun Chung, UCLA Political Science

Heather M. Smith, UCSD Political Science


Presentations & Lectures (last seven years)

"Harmony and Dissonance in Extraterritorial REgulations," ASIL Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Mar. 25, 2011

"The Piracy Paradox," USC Center on Law, Economics, and Organization, LA, CA Jan 24, 2011

"The American Reinvention of Empire," European-Amerian Sheriffs Advisory Committee, LA County Sheriff's Headquarters, Dec. 6, 2010

"Empire & Extraterritoriality," Southwestern School of Law, LA, CA Nov. 12, 2010

"the Piracy Paradox," Columbia Law School, Public Law Colloquium, NY, NY, Oct. 22, 2010

"Information and International Agreements," NYU Law School, Hauser Colloquium, NY, NY, Oct. 20, 2010

"Regime Options for Cyber Threats," Workshop on Cyber Threats, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA, Oct 8 2010

"The Piracy Paradox," Michigan Law School Law and Economics Colloquium, Ann Arbor, MI, Sept. 22, 2010

"The New Opium Wars: Counternarcotics and Afghanistan," 4-Star Democratic Club, Los Angeles, CA, June 22, 2010

"Does the Consitution Follow the Flag?," Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, May 20, 2010

"Extraterritoriality: Bagram and Beyond," American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Mar. 25 2010

"Is Bagram the New Guantanamo? Obama, Bush, and the Ware on Terror," Duke Law School, Durham, North Carolina, Mar. 24, 2010

Participant, "Workshop on Human Rights Indicators," ASU Law School, Tempe, AZ, Jan. 8, 2010

"Is Bagram the New Guantanamo? Law and the Courts After 9/11," Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA, Nov. 19, 2009

"Knockoffs and Fashion Victims: why We Don't Need the Design Piracy Prohibition Act," Fox Studios Legal Group, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 3, 2009

Discussant, 2009 Roundtable on Does the Consitution Follow the Flag? The Evolution of Territoriality in American Law, Temple Universtiy Law School, Oct. 2, 2009

Panelist, Roundtable on International Law and Domestic Politics, Aemrican Political Science Association Annual Convention, Toronto, CA, Sept. 4, 2009

"Does the Consitution Folow the Flag?", UCLA, Aug. 26, 2009

"Toward a Post-Kyoto Climate Architecture, " UCLA Institute of the Environment Colloquium, Dec. 4, 2008

"Toward a Post-Kyoto Climate Architecture," RIGS Colloquium, UC Irvine, CA, Nov. 21, 2008

"Transnation Networks: Past and Present," Conference on Transnational Networks, SMU Law School, Dallas, TX, Nov. 7, 2008

"Toward a Post-Kyoto Climate Architecture," Hauser Globalization Colloquium, NYU Law School, NY, NY, Nov. 5, 2008

"Asian and International Institutions," US-Japan Leadership Network Program, Tokyp, Japan, Oct. 9, 2008

"Toward a Post-Kyoto Climate ARchitecture," UC Berkeley Law School, Berkeley, CA, Sept. 11, 2008

Panelist at "The Next World: How Should America Respond to Rising Powers?," organized by Center for American Progress, Stanley Foundation, and New America Foundaiton, Santa Monica, CA, Sept. 5, 2008

"The Knockoff Economy, (interview by James Suroweicki), The New Yorker Conference: Stories from the Near Future, New York, NY, May 9, 2008

"The Global Struggle Over Geographic Indications," and "The U.S. and International Law," University of Aix-Marsille, France, Apr. 27 &29, 2008

"The Next American Century" Zocalo/KPCC Interview of Nina Hachigian and Mona Sutphen, authors of  The Next American Century, at NPR West Studios, Jan. 24, 2008 (video rebroadcast on CSPAN & LA36).

"The Design Piracy Prohibition Act," American Apparel and Footwear Association, Long Beach, CA, Nov. 7, 2007

"Unbundling Territoriality in American Law," Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Jan. 16 2007

"Extraterritoriality and Executive Power," RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Oct. 20, 2006

"The Evolution of Extraterritoriality," University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Sept. 20, 2006

Participant, Roundtable on the Allocation of Normative Power to International Judicial Institutions, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 1-4 2006

Discussant, Conference on the Regime Complex for International Intellectual Property, Michigan State Law School, East Lansing, MI, Apr. 8-9, 2006

"International Law: The State of the Art," UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Conference on the Future of International Conflict and Cooperation, La Jolla, CA, Mar. 20-21, 2006

Discussant, Conference on Intellectual Property and Social Justice, UC Davis Law School, Mar. 10, 2006

Discussant, Conference on Overlapping and Nested Regimes, Princeton University, Feb. 24-25, 2006

"Globalization and Territoriality," University Seminar on Globalization, Equity, and Democratic Governance, Duke University, Nov. 8, 2005.

"Does the Bill of Rights Stop at the Border?" Duke Law School, Nov. 9, 2005.

"Refining the Limits of International Law," University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Oct. 2005

"The Song Remains the Same," (with Andrew Guzman), Conference on the Future of the State, UVA Law School, Charlottesville, VA, Oct. 2005.

Discussant, Seminar on the WTO and Developing Countries, Columbia Law School, NY, NY Oct. 2005

"New Intellectual Property Rights," Loyola Law School, LA, CA, Sept. 2005

"The Evolution of Territoriality," SMU Law School, Dallas TX, Sept. 2005

"New Intellectual Property Rights" UCLA Law School, Aug. 2005

"Information and International Agreements," IGCC International Relations Workshop, La Jolla, CA, May 2005.

"The Evolution of Territoriality" International Legal Theory Colloquium, Georgetown Law Center, Apr. 2005 

"The Geography of Justice", International Law Workshop, Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, CA, Apr. 2005.

Discussant, Governance by Design Conference, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, Mar. 2005

"The Evolution of Territoriality," Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, CA, Mar. 2005. 

"Information and International Agreements," Tulane Law School, New Orleans, LA, Feb. 2005

Panelist, Conference on Comparative Visions of Global Public Order, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, Feb. 2005

“Genetically-Modified Foods before the WTO,” City Bar Association of New York International Environmental Law Committee, NY, NY, Dec. 2004

“The Evolution of Territoriality,” New York Law School, NY, NY, Nov. 2004

“Information and International Agreements,” Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, TN, Nov. 2004 

“The Evolution of Territoriality” Columbia Law School, NY, NY, Oct. 2004

“The Evolution of Territoriality,” Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, Oct. 2004

Panalist, 7^th Annual Georgetown Litigating Regulatory Takings Conference, “Takings Claims Under International Trade Agreements,” UCLA Law School, LA, CA, Oct. 2004

“Information and International Agreements,” Fordham Law School, NY, NY, Sept. 2004

“Extraterritoriality and American Law,” Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Sept. 2004

“Knock-offs and Fashion Victims” Columbia Law School, NY, NY, Sept. 2004 

"Information and International Agreements," Pan-European Conference on International Relations, The Hague, The Netherlands, Sept. 2004

"Kyoto and After," AALS Annual Meeting on Environmental and Property Law, Portland, OR, June 2004 

"Extraterritoriality and American Law," Law & Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 2004

Panelist, Workshop on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, Bren School, UC Santa Barbara, May 2004

"Extraterritoriality and American Law," Panel on Globalization, Territoriality, and Conflict, University of California Washington Program, Washington DC, May 2004

"The Global Conflict Over Genetic Resources," Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA,  Apr. 2004 

“Information and International Agreements,” Colloquium on Globalization and the Law, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, Apr. 2004

Chair, Panel on “New Directions in International Environmental Law,” American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Apr. 2004

“New Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Economy” Conference on International Intellectual Property Law, Case Western Reserve Law School, Cleveland, OH, Mar. 2004

“Information and International Agreements,” Department of Politics and Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Mar. 2004

“The evolution of territoriality in American law” Carnegie Conference on Globalization, Territoriality, and Conflict, La Jolla, CA, Jan. 2004

Conference Organizer and Discussant, Conference on “Unilateralism and US Power,” Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, NJ, Dec. 5, 2003.

“Globalization, Territoriality, and the Constitution,” Southwestern Law School, LA, CA, Nov. 19, 2003

“The Regime Complex for Plant Genetic Resources,” USC Law School Seminar on International Environmental Law, Nov. 13, 2003.

“Sovereignty and Global Governance,” Seminar on Global Governance, Columbia Law School, NY, NY, Nov. 11, 2003.

“The Regime Complex for Plant Genetic Resources,” Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 6, 2003

Parsons Fellow Lecture, "The Global Conflict over Genetic Resources," University of Sydney Law School, Sydney, Australia, Oct. 26, 2003

“The Global Conflict over Genetic Resources,” University of Victoria Law School, Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 21, 2003.

Visiting Scholar in Environmental Law, University of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 14-22, 2003

"Police Patrols, Fire Alarms, and the Structure of Information in International Agreements" International Law Workshop, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL Oct. 6, 2003

"Police Patrols, Fire Alarms, and the Structure of Information in International Agreements" Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security (PIPES) Workshop, University of Chicago Dept of Political Science, Chicago, IL, Oct. 2, 2003

"The Evolution of Territoriality and in US Law"  University of Chicago Law chool Faculty Colloquium, Chicago, IL, Oct. 2, 2003

"The Evolution of Territoriality and in US Law"  Northwestern University Dept of Political Science, Chicago, IL, Sept. 30, 2003

"Transgovernmental Networks and International Law," Chicago-Kent Law School, Chicago, IL, Sept. 9, 2003