UCLA Law Professor Kal Raustiala

Lawyers Care More About Fixing the World; Political Scientists Just Want to Understand It

Kal Raustiala is a professor at UCLA School of Law and the UCLA International Institute, where he teaches in the Program on Global Studies. Since 2007 he has served as director of the UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations. Before taking part in a Zócalo/UCLA Downtown event, “Is America Enabling Autocrats to Run the World?” at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, in Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles, he spoke in the Zócalo green room about surfing, political science, and his favorite treaty.

UCLA School of Law’s Kal Raustiala

Duck Fat Ice Cream Tastes Better Than It Sounds

Kal Raustiala is a professor at the UCLA School of Law, director of the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, and coauthor of The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation. …

Go Ahead: Steal This Headline

Kal Raustiala of UCLA Says Imitation Breeds Innovation

Why do Angelenos spend $16 for a ticket to the ArcLight cinema to see a movie they can download for free? Why does the Kogi truck keep making money on …

Everybody Wins With Fake Birkin Bags

Why Knockoffs Keep Trends Changing and Spur Creativity

We’re in the midst of New York Fashion Week, and the conversation about what we’ll soon be wearing has begun. The festivities even reached L.A. with events like Thursday’s “Fashion’s …

Theft Is In the Eye Of the Beholder

When Is It OK For Someone in Your Field To ‘Steal’ an Idea?

 

Did Samsung violate Apple’s intellectual property rights by making a phone with a pinchable screen? Should one-click online ordering be an idea owned by one corporation? Should the day come …