James Kraska

James Kraska is Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Maritime Law and Chair of the Stockton Center for International Law at the U.S. Naval War College and Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization at Harvard Law School. He served as a Visiting Professor of Law at the College of Law, University of the Philippines, and as a Distinguished Professor of Law at Gujarat National Law University. He was also a Mary Derrickson McCurdy Visiting Scholar at Duke University Marine Laboratory and an Office of the Chief of Naval Research Fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He is the General Editor of International Law Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the treatise, Benedict on Admiralty: International Maritime Law. He is a Permanent Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Kraska served as a U.S. Navy officer and lawyer, with multiple tours of duty in Japan and the Pentagon. In 2025, he published “Cultural Influences on the Law of the Sea” (with Hyoun Ryou-Ellison, Oxford University Press).