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. His research focuses on international law, international relations, and intellectual property. 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). 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? The Evolution of Territoriality in American Law (Oxford, 2009). The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation (Oxford, 2012) (with Christopher Sprigman), was translated into Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. 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. A graduate of Duke University, Professor Raustiala holds a J.D. from Harvard and Ph.D. from UC San Diego. 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, he has served on the editorial boards of International Organization and the American Journal of International Law.