Kal Raustiala

Professor, UCLA Law School &
Program on Global Studies
405 Hilgard Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90095
(310) 794-4856

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

Courses: Public International Law; Globalization: Concepts, History, and Contemporary Issues; International Environmental Law; Global Governance; Globalization in Context; International Environmental Law; The Global Environment and World Politics

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

Course: Public International Law

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

Courses: International Environmental Law; Seminar on International Relations and International Law

Visiting Professor, University of Chicago Law School, Fall 2003

Courses: International Law: The Future of Sovereignty (short course)

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

Courses: International Law; Seminar on Global Environmental Politics

Assistant Professor of Politics, Brandeis University, 1995-6

Courses: International Political Economy; Graduate Seminar on International Political Economy; International Environmental Law and Politics

 

Education

Harvard Law School, J.D., 1999

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

Exam Fields: International Relations; Comparative Politics

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

 

Publications

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

Reprinted in briefer form in Agricultura, Istituazoni, Mercati: Rivista de Diretto Agroalimentare e Dell Ambiente, (forthcoming, 2008)

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

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

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

(accompanying responses by Rochelle Dreyfuss and Randal Picker)

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, (forthcoming, 2007); discussed in The New York Times; The New Yorker; The Financial Times; The Wall Street Journal; The Boston Globe; and Le Monde

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

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) 

Edited/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)

Rethinking the Sovereignty Debate in International Economic Institutions, Journal of International Economic Law (2004)

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

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)

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)

The Domestication of International Commitments: Domestic Law and International Treaties, IIASA Working Paper 95-2 (1995)

 

Works in Progress

Does the Constitution Follow The Flag? (working title), (contract with Oxford University Press)

Traditional Knowledge, Intellectual Property, & Global Justice (with Steve Munzer)

Making Climate Change Institutions Politician-Friendly: Compliance Without Enforcement in Climate Policy (with Robert O. Keohane) 

Information and International Cooperation (with Barbara Koremenos)

Nonstate Actors in the Global Climate Regime (with Natalie Bridgeman), for International Relations and the Climate Change Regime, 2nd Ed, (Detlef Sprinz and Urs Luterbacher, eds,)

 

Op-Eds & Commentary

"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 

"Why Terrorists Aren't Soldiers," New York Times, August 8, 2007 (with Gen. Wesley K. Clark)

"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 April 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, August 26, 2002  

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

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

 

Other Professional Experience

Faculty, Duke-Geneva Institute in Transnational Law, July 2004, Geneva, Switzerland.

Consultant, US Government's MEDEA Group on the use of remote-sensing in monitoring environmental treaties.  (June 2001)

Consultant, North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation (2001)

Consultant, United Nations Environment Programme, Division of Environmental Information and Assessment, 1998-2000

Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Project on International Environmental Commitments, June-August 1995, 1996 & 1997

 

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

Pacific Council on International Policy

American Society 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

Planning Committee, 2003 ASIL Annual Meeting

 

Major University Service

Director, UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, 2007-

Co-Chair, External Appointments Committee (UCLA Law School) 2005-6

Chair, Joint Search Committee on Migration, UCLA International Institute and UCLA Law School, 2005-6

UCLA International Institute Faculty Advisory Committee, 2005-

Executive Committee, UCLA Institute of the Environment, 2000-2, 2003-4

 

Conference Presentations & Lectures (last five years)

"The Next American Century" Zocalo/KPCC Interview of Nina Hachigian and Mona Sutphen, authors of  The Next American Century, at NPR West Studios, January 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

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

Presentation, "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, April 8-9, 2006

Presentation, "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, March 20-21, 2006

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

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

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

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

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

Presentation, "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

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

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

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

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

Presentation, "The Evolution of Territoriality" International Legal Theory Colloquium, Georgetown Law Center, April 2005 

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

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

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

Presentation, "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

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

Presentation, “The Evolution of Territoriality,” New York Law School, NY, NY, November 2004

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

Presentation, “The Evolution of Territoriality” Columbia Law School, NY, NY, October 2004

Presentation, “The Evolution of Territoriality,” Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, October 2004

Presentation, 7th Annual Georgetown Litigating Regulatory Takings Conference, “Takings Claims Under International Trade Agreements,” UCLA Law School, LA, CA, October 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Distinguished Speaker Series, Claremont Colleges, "The Global Conflict Over Genetic Resources," Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA,  April 2004 

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

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

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

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

Presentation, “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.

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

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

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

Presentation, “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

Presentation, “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

Presentation, "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

Presentation, "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

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

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

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

Presenter and Organizer, Conference on Globalization, Democracy and Regulation, Princeton University, May 29, 2003 

Chair, Panel on “The Global Conflict Over Genetic Resources,” American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 3, 2003.

Presentation, Riesenfeld Symposium on International Money Laundering, Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, CA, March 1, 2003

Presentation, “Globalization, Territoriality and the Constitution,” Princeton University, Seminar on Law and Public Affairs, Princeton, NJ, Feb 10, 2003.

Presentation, “The Regime Complex for Plant Genetic Resources,” NYU Law School Colloquium on Globalization and Its Discontents, NY, NY, Feb 3, 2003

Presentation, “Globalization, Territoriality, and the Constitution,” conference on Globalization, Territory, and Conflict, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, Jan 17-18 2003