Associate Professor
Osgoode Hall Law School
Email: swood@osgoode.yorku.ca
Personal Website: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty/stepanwood.html
Osgoode Website: http://osgoode.yorku.ca/swood

Stepan is an associate professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. He received his B.A.(Hons.) in International Relations from York University in 1988 and his LL.B. from Osgoode in 1992, where he graduated as Gold Medalist. Stepan worked as a law clerk to the late Justice John Sopinka of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1992-93, after which he practiced law with the New York-based global law firm White & Case for two years, concentrating on international commercial arbitration and domestic antitrust and commercial litigation. Stepan conducted his graduate studies at Harvard Law School under the supervision of professors Anne-Marie Slaughter, David Kennedy and the late Abram Chayes. He completed his doctoral dissertation, a Foucaultian analysis of the ISO 14000 environmental management system standards, in 2003. He joined the faculty of Osgoode Hall Law School in 1997. He is a member of the bar of New York.

Selected Publications

Richardson, Benjamin J. and Stepan Wood, eds. (forthcoming 2006) Environmental Law for Sustainability: A Critical Reader (Oxford: Hart)

Wood, Stepan (forthcoming 2005) “Three Questions About Corporate Codes: Problematizations, Authorizations and the Public/Private Divide,” in Wesley Cragg, ed., Ethics Codes: The Regulatory Norms of a Global Society? (Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, in press) 245-288

Wood, Stepan (2004) “The Role of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in Governing Environmental Conflict and Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries: Questions for Research” in Beatriz Londoño Toro, ed., Propriedad, Conflicto y Medio Ambiente (Bogotá: Universidad del Rosario) 15-56

Wood, Stepan (2004) “Canada’s ‘Forgotten Forests’: Or, How Ottawa is Failing Local Communities and the World in Peri-Urban Forest Protection,” Journal of Environmental Law and Practice 14: 217-250

Wood, Stepan (2004) “Commentary: Toward a Counterdisciplinary Agenda for Research in International Law and International Relations,” in Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Canadian Council on International Law (The Hague: Kluwer Law International) 260-273

Wood, Stepan (2003) “Green Revolution or Greenwash? Voluntary Environmental Standards, Public Law and Private Authority in Canada,” in Law Commission of Canada (ed.) New Perspectives on the Public-Private Divide (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press) 123-165

Wood, Stepan (2003) “La révolution verte est-elle diluée? Les normes environnementales volontaires, le droit public et l’autorité du privé au Canada” dans Commission du droit du Canada (dir.) La réforme du droit et la frontière entre le public et le privé (Québec: Les presses de l’Université Laval) 183-247

Wood, Stepan (2003) “Sustainability in International Law”, in UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, article no. 1.45.4.10, online: http://www.eolss.net

Wood, Stepan (2002-03) “Environmental Management Systems and Public Authority in Canada: Rethinking Environmental Governance,” 10 Buffalo Environmental Law Journal 129-210

Wood, Stepan (2001) “The High Price of Habitat Protection” 27(3) Alternatives: Environmental Thought, Policy and Action (Summer 2001) 9-11

Slaughter, Anne-Marie, Andrew S. Tulumello and Stepan Wood (1998) “International Law and International Relations Theory: A New Generation of Interdisciplinary Scholarship” 92 American Journal of International Law 367-397

Wood, Stepan (1997) “Renegades and Vigilantes in Multilateral Environmental Regimes: Lessons of the 1995 ‘Turbot War’,” in Lawrence Susskind et al. (eds.), Innovations in International Environmental Negotiation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Program on Negotiation, 1997) 184-200