Directory of Scholars

STEPAN WOOD


ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

email swood@osgoode.yorku.ca

Primary Research Interests

  • Alternative regulatory tools (eg voluntary codes and self-regulation)
  • Climate change law
  • Corporate environmental responsibility
  • International environmental law
  • Marine & fisheries law
  • Natural resources management (forestry, mining, etc)

Secondary Research Interests

  • Constitutional law and the environment
  • Economic instruments & the environment (taxes, emission trading, etc)
  • Enforcement & compliance issues
  • Environmental ethics & justice
  • Human rights & the environment
  • Indigenous peoples & the environment
  • Municipal & land use planning
  • Pollution & toxics control
  • Trade law & the environment
  • Water law

Selected Publications

  • Climate Law and Developing Countries: Legal and Policy Challenges for the World Community (with B Richardson, H McLeod-Kilmurray and Y Le Bouthillier, eds.), Edward Elgar, (forthcoming).
  • Environmental Law for Sustainability (with Richardson, B, eds.), Oxford, Hart, 2006.
  • Six Principles for Integrating Non Governmental Environmental Standards into Smart Regulation (with L Johannson), 46 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 345, 2008.
  • "Common Law Liability Relief", in M Gerrard, ed., Brownfields Law and Practice, Newark, NJ, Matthew Bender, 2008.
  • "Voluntary Environmental Codes and Sustainability", in B Richardson & S Wood, eds., Environmental Law for Sustainability, Oxford, Hart, 2006, p.229.
  • "The Role of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in Governing Environmental Conflict and Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries: Questions for Research", in B Londoño Toro, ed., Propriedad, Conflicto y Medio Ambiente, Bogotá, Universidad del Rosario, 2004, p.15.
  • Canada's Forgotten Forests: Or, How Ottawa is Failing Local Communities and the World in Peri-Urban Forest Protection, 14 Journal of Environmental Law and Practice 217, 2004.
  • Environmental Management Systems and Public Authority in Canada: Rethinking Environmental Governance, 10 Buffalo Environmental Law Journal 129, 2002-03.
  • Governing Beyond Borders: Law for Canadians in an Era of Globalization (with Clarkson, Stephen), Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, forthcoming 2009.