A.B. Duke, 1988
Ph.D. Political Science, U.C. San Diego, 1996
J.D. Harvard, 1999
UCLA Law faculty since 2000
raustiala@law.ucla.edu
Kal Raustiala teaches courses in international law and international relations. He holds a joint appointment between the UCLA Law School and the UCLA International Institute, where he teaches in the Program on Global Studies, a multidisciplinary undergraduate program on globalization. In December 2006, he was appointed director of the UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations. The Burkle Center is UCLA's primary academic unit that fosters interdisciplinary research and policy-oriented teaching on the role of the United States in global cooperation and conflict, and military, political, social and economic affairs.
In addition to UCLA, Professor Raustiala has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, the Princeton Politics Department, and the University of Chicago Law School. He was a fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., a Peccei Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems in Vienna, Austria, and a fellow in the Program on Law and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton. A member of the American Society of International Law and the Council on Foreign Relations, he is on the editorial boards of International Organization and the American Journal of International Law and has served as a consultant on legal matters to numerous international organizations.
Professor Raustiala's
recent publications include "Toward a Post-Kyoto Climate Architecture: A
Political Analysis" (with Robert O. Keohane), forthcoming in Implementing
Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in The Post Kyoto
World (Cambridge University Press, 2009), The Piracy Paradox Revisited,
(with Chris Sprigman), Stanford Law Review (2009), and "Transnational
Networks: Past and Present," in The International Lawyer (2009). His new
book, Does the Constitution Follow the Flag? The Evolution of Territoriality
in American Law, was published in June 2009 by Oxford University Press.