Thomas Heller is the Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies at Stanford Law School and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for International Studies. He received an A.B. from Princeton University (1965) and an LL.B. from Yale University (1968). He teaches in the field of law and international political economy, with a particular focus on the comparative economic law in Europe, the United States and Japan, and on strategies for investment or other business transactions in developing economies with weak legal systems. In recent years, he has worked extensively in the energy sectors in developing countries in conjunction with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. His current research focuses on the political economy of energy sector reform in China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico, as well as the relation of energy futures to cooperative programs in Greenhouse Gas mitigation. He has published in the fields of legal theory, taxation and public finance, energy and climate change, migration and foreign investments.
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