Thomas C. Heller

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Thomas C. Heller, LLB

  • Lewis Talbot and Nadine Hearn Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies, Emeritus
  • FSI Senior Fellow and Woods Institute Senior Fellow by courtesy

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Stanford, California 94305-8610

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Biography

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 co-directs the law school’s Rule of Law Program, as well as the Stanford Program in International 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.

publications

Working Papers
October 2009

Contract Enforcement and Firm Organization: Evidence from the Indian Textile Industry

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Books
March 2007

Political Economy of Power Sector Reform: The Experiences of Five Major Developing Countries

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Books
April 2005

Beyond Common Knowledge: Empirical Approaches to the Rule of Law

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