- Lewis Talbot and Nadine Hearn Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies, Emeritus
- Faculty Director, Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance
- Room 211, Crown Quadrangle
Biography
Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Senior Fellow (by courtesy), Woods Institute for the Environment.
An expert in international law and legal institutions, Thomas C. Heller has focused his research on the rule of law, international climate control, global energy use, and the interaction of government and nongovernmental organizations in establishing legal structures in the developing world. He has created innovative courses on the role of law in transitional and developing economies, as well as the comparative study of law in developed economies. He has co-directed the law school’s Rule of Law Program, as well as the Stanford Program in International and Comparative Law. Professor Heller has been a visiting professor at the European University Institute, Catholic University of Louvain, and Hong Kong University, and has served as the deputy director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, where he is now a senior fellow.
Professor Heller is also a senior fellow (by courtesy) at the Woods Institute for the Environment. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1979, he was a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and an attorney-advisor to the governments of Chile and Colombia.
Education
- BA Princeton University 1965
- LLB Yale Law School 1968
Affiliations & Honors
- Member, Center for Development, Democracy, and the Rule of Law
- Member, Program in Energy and Sustainable Development
- Member, Advisory Board, Revenue Watch Institute (Open Society Institute)