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Chair and Lewis Talbot and Nadine Hearn Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies and Coordinator of the Rule of Law Program at CDDRL; FSI Senior Fellow; Woods Institute Senior Fellow by courtesy

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Research Interests
international law and political economy; legal theory; environmental law; energy law and policy; law and development


Thomas Heller is coordinator of the Rule of Law Program at CDDRL, a CESP senior fellow, and the Lewis Talbot and Nadine Hearn Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies at Stanford. His work focuses on international law and political economy, law and development, energy law and policy, and environmental law.

Heller has been on the Stanford faculty since 1979 and has served as associate dean of the Law School (1997-2000), deputy director of FSI (1989-1992), and director of the Overseas Studies Program (1985-1992). He was a member of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin from 1971 to 1979, and served as co-director of the Center for Public Representation in Madison, Wisconsin, during 1976-77. He has been a visiting professor at several institutions, including Hong Kong University (2003), the European University Institute (1992-93 and 1996-99), the Catholic University of Louvain (1998), and the Center for Law and Economics at the University of Miami (1977-78).

He was previously a fellow of the Humanities Research Institute at UC-Irvine (1989), a Kellogg National Fellow (1981-83), and a fellow of the International Legal Center at Bogota, Colombia (1968-70). He received an AB from Princeton University in 1965 and an LLB (law degree) from Yale University in 1968.

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Heller picked by billionaire Soros to head global climate change project
Thomas Heller, who will head the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), said the goal of the CPI in particular will be to improve the effectiveness of governments ...
October 30, 2009 in The Stanford Daily

Soros to invest $1bn in clean-tech
... for 10 years to the Climate Policy Initiative, which will be headed up by Stanford professor Thomas Heller, who specialises in energy and climate change.
October 15, 2009 in Environmental Finance

George Soros to invest $1 billion in green tech, will found and fund a climate ...
... which has been described by Thomas Heller, professor at Stanford University Law School and head of the initiative, as "part advisory service, ...
October 13, 2009 in The Daily Tell

Soros' Big Money Behind Environmental Watchdog
... investment includes the creation of a private "global climate watchdog" to be "based in San Francisco and headed by Stanford professor Thomas Heller.
October 13, 2009 in Tonic

Billionaire pledges $1 billion to develop green technologies
... part policy developer and part watchdog," Thomas Heller, a professor at Stanford Law School in Palo Alto in California who will head the organisation, ...
October 13, 2009 in New Scientist