Michael A. Heller
Property law professor
Michael A. Heller is a Columbia Law School professor who teaches property and real estate law. He coined the term "tragedy of the anticommons."
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About Michael A. Heller
Michael A. Heller is the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches property, land use and real estate law. He has also served as the school's vice dean for intellectual life. In 1998, while teaching at the University of Michigan Law School, he published a Harvard Law Review article that introduced the "tragedy of the anticommons", a term he coined. From 1990 to 1994 he worked at the World Bank on property law in post-socialist countries. His book in our catalog is Mine!