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Thomas C. Heller
Chair and Lewis Talbot and Nadine Hearn Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies; Coordinator of the Rule of Law Program at CDDRL; FSI Senior Fellow; Woods Institute Senior Fellow by courtesy
ADDRESS
theller@stanford.edu
(650) 723-7650 (phone)
(650) 725-0253 (fax)
Crown 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.
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Greenhouse Gas Implications in Large Scale Infrastructure Investments in Developing Countries: Examples from China and India

Michael Jackson, Sarah Joy, Thomas C. Heller, David G. Victor
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #54 (2006) +PDF+

Beyond Common Knowledge: Empirical Approaches to the Rule of Law

Erik Jensen, Thomas C. Heller
Stanford University Press (2005) +BUY+
 

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) +PDF+

Carbon intensity of electricity generation and CDM baseline: case studies of three Chinese provinces

Chi Zhang, Thomas C. Heller, Michael M. May
Energy Policy vol. 33 (2005) +HTML+

Electricity Reforms in India: Firm Choices and Emerging Generation Markets

P.R. Shukla, Thomas C. Heller, David G. Victor, Debashish Biswas, Tirthankar Nag, Amee Yajnik
Tata McGraw Hill (2004) +HTML+
Events
 

Escaping the Resource Curse? A Look at Nigeria (2/23/2005)

CDDRL Research Seminar with Thomas C. Heller
 

Conference on Governance and Sovereignty in Failed and Failing States

CDDRL Conference with 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
4/16/2004 - 4/17/2004
+PDF+ conference agenda available
 

The Political Economy of Power Market Reform

Conference with David G. Victor, Thomas C. Heller, Henri Tjiong
2/19/2003 - 2/20/2003
+PDF+ 9 papers, 19 presentations, conference agendas available
Research Programs and Projects

Rule of Law Program
Research Program

 

Corporate Restructuring and Governance in China
Research Project

Five Country Study of Electricity Market Reform: Results
Research Project

National Oil Companies
Research Platform

 

Oil dependent producer states
Research Project

Political Economy of Electricity Markets
Research Platform

 

China Energy Development, Global Climate Change, and International Mitigation Policy
Research Project (Completed)