Rakesh "Raj" Kumar Bhala (born 1962 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is an Indian-American lawyer and professor, prominent in the fields of International Trade Law and Islamic Law (Sharia). He is the inaugural Leo S. Brenneisen Distinguished Professor of Law, before which he was the Rice Distinguished Professor (2003-17), at the University of Kansas School of Law, and has served as its Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law. Bhala is the author of 74 articles and 13 books. BloombergQuint (India) publishes his monthly column on international law and economics, “On Point,” the first one of which appeared in January 2017, “The Trump Raj Begins … But How Will It Endure?” Wikipedia