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Thomas C. Heller is an expert in international law and legal institutions, focusing on the rule of law, international climate control, global energy use, and the interaction between government and non-governmental organizations in establishing legal structures in the developing world. He has created innovative courses on the role of law in transitional economies and the comparative study of law in developed economies. Heller co-directed the law school’s Rule of Law Program and the Stanford Program in International Comparative Law. He has served as a visiting professor at the European University Institute, the Catholic University of Louvain, and Hong Kong University. He was the deputy director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and has been a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, also at Stanford. Joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1979, Heller has previously been a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and has worked as an attorney-advisor for the governments of Chile and Colombia.
Stanford University • Stanford, California
Emeritus faculty in the Law School.
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies • Stanford, California
Woods Institute for the Environment • Stanford, California
Senior fellow by courtesy.
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