Stepan Wood

{{Short description|Canadian Lawyer}}

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John Stepan Wood is a Canadian lawyer (bar of New York) and legal scholar specializing in environmental law and transnational law{{cite web|url=https://sustainability.asu.edu/people/persbio.php?pid=8326|title=Stepan Wood - Person - Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability|website=Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability|accessdate=19 November 2017}} who is a law professor at Osgoode Hall Law School.{{cite web |url=http://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty-and-staff/wood-stepan/ |title=Wood, Stepan - Osgoode Hall Law School |accessdate=2014-10-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012103533/http://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty-and-staff/wood-stepan/ |archivedate=2014-10-12 }} He was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence in 2010-2011{{cite web|url=http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/RobertSchumanCentre/People/Fellows/Past/2011/Index.aspx|title=Fellows 2010/2011|website=Eui.eu|accessdate=19 November 2017}} and clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada after receiving his first law degree.

In 2017, Wood joined the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia as a senior academic focusing on corporate social responsibility, sustainability, transnational governance and climate change.{{Cite web|title=Peter A. Allard School of Law {{!}} Stepan Wood named Canada Research Chair in Law, Society and Sustainability|url=http://allard.ubc.ca/news-events/ubc-law-news/stepan-wood-named-canada-research-chair-law-society-and-sustainability|website=allard.ubc.ca|access-date=2020-05-06}}

He earned an LL.B at Osgoode Hall Law School and an S.J.D. at Harvard Law School.