Dr. Stepan Wood

Biography

Stepan Wood is a Professor at the Peter Allard School of Law whose scholarship focuses on corporate social responsibility, sustainability, globalization, transnational governance, voluntary standards, climate change, and environmental law. He leads the interdisciplinary Transnational Business Governance Interactions (TBGI) project, an international research network that examines the drivers, dynamics, and impacts of competition, cooperation, coordination, and conflict in transnational initiatives aimed at regulating global business. Wood is currently pursuing a SJD at Harvard Law School. He previously served as a law clerk to the late Justice John Sopinka of the Supreme Court of Canada and practiced law at White & Case in New York. Before joining the Allard School in 2017, he held the York Research Chair in Environmental Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he was also the Editor-in-Chief of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal and coordinated a joint JD/Master in Environmental Studies program. His research interests stem from a lifelong passion for environmental conservation, social justice, and sustainable development, particularly focusing on how marginalized and equity-seeking actors can leverage transnational governance to improve social and environmental standards in business practices. As an educator, he advises law students to develop careful analytical and persuasive skills essential in a rapidly changing legal profession.

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