Biography

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.