
Thomas C. Heller, LLB
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 courtesyCrown Quad 329
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
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.
Stanford Departments
Law
Publications
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- Contract Enforcement and Firm Organization: Evidence from the Indian Textile Industry
Nicholas Bloom, Benn Eifert, Thomas C. Heller, Erik Jensen, Aprajit Mahajan
CDDRL Working Papers (2009)
Political Economy of Power Sector Reform, the: The Experiences of Five Major Developing Countries
Thomas C. Heller, David G. Victor
Cambridge University Press (2007)
- Greenhouse Gas Implications in Large Scale Infrastructure Investments in Developing Countries: Examples from China and India
Mike Jackson, Sarah Joy, Thomas C. Heller, David G. Victor
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #54 (2006)
Beyond Common Knowledge: Empirical Approaches to the Rule of Law
Erik Jensen, Thomas C. Heller
Stanford University Press (2005)
- Baseline for carbon emissions in the Indian and Chinese power sectors: implications for international carbon trading
Chi Zhang, Thomas C. Heller, David G. Victor, P.R. Shukla, Debhashish Biswas, Tirthankar Nag
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #34 (2005)
Events & Presentations
- Escaping the Resource Curse? A Look at Nigeria
February 23, 2005 CDDRL Research Seminar
Thomas C. Heller - Conference on Governance and Sovereignty in Failed and Failing States
April 16, 2004 - April 17, 2004 CDDRL Conference
Stephen D. Krasner, Stephen J. Stedman, Larry Diamond, Thomas C. Heller, James D. Fearon, Eugene Mazo, William Reno, Chester Crocker, Bruce Jones, Thomas Risse, Peter Gourevitch, Marina Ottoway, Paul Collier, Gerald Knaus, Richard Steinberg, Matt Vaccaro, Patrick Cronin, Robert Keohane, Robert Rotberg
conference agenda available - The Political Economy of Power Market Reform
February 19, 2003 - February 20, 2003 Conference
David G. Victor, Thomas C. Heller, Henri Tjiong
4 papers, 19 presentations, 2 conference agendas available
Research Programs & Projects
Program on Law and Economy in India
Program on Oil Wealth Management in Developing States- Corporate Restructuring and Governance in China
Shorenstein APARC, SCP Project
Five Country Study of Electricity Market Reform: Results
PESD Project
Oil Dependent Producer States
(Completed)
Rule of Law Program
(Completed)- China Energy Development, Global Climate Change, and International Mitigation Policy
CISAC Project (Completed)


