University of Oregon School of Law - Mary Wood

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Mary Christina Wood

Philip H. Knight Professor of Law
Morse Center Resident Scholar 2006-07
Luvaas Faculty Fellow 2007-08

Books, Law Reviews, And Other Scholarship

Treatise on Public Trust Law (work in progress, 2008).

"A Framework of China-U.S. Partnership to Address Global Warming," 3 China Environmental and Resource Law Review, Ocean University (Renmin Press, forthcoming Spring 2008). To read an abstract of this article, click here.

"Nature's Trust as a Paradigm for Scientific Input in Policy Decisions," Abstract, Annual Conference of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California (forthcoming December 2007) (with Alison Burchell, Ed Whitelaw, Bob Doppelt), available at http://www.agu.org/cgi-bin/SFgate/SFgate.
Nature's Trust Poster

"Government's Atmospheric Trust Responsibility," California Environmental Law Reporter (forthcoming, February 2008).

"Tribes as Trustees Again (Part I): The Emerging Tribal Role in the Conservation Trust Movement," Harvard Environmental Law Journal (with Zach Welker) (forthcoming Spring 2008). To read an abstract of this article, click here.

"Tribes as Trustees Again (Part II): Evaluating Four Models of Tribal Participation in the Conservation Trust Movement," Stanford Environmental Law Journal (with Matthew O'Brien) (forthcoming Spring 2008).
To read an abstract of this article, click here.

Climate Legacy Initiative, Consultant, 2007-present
Initiative formed to research and promote legal doctrines, principles, and rules appropriate for recognition by courts, legislatures, administrative agencies, and private sector institutions to safeguard present and future generations from harms resulting from global climate change; http://www.vermontlaw.edu/cli/index.cfm?doc_id=1403.
Climate Legacy Initiative Press Release February 2008

"Government's Atmospheric Trust Responsibility," Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, Issue 22:2 (December 2007).

The Presidential Climate Action Project, Chapter 9, "Natural Resources Stewardship" (contributing author) http://www.climateactionproject.com (September 2007); "Nature's Trust: A Paradigm for Natural Resources Stewardship" (white paper) (December 2007).

Atmospheric Trust Obligation, chapter in ADJUDICATING CLIMATE CHANGE: SUB-NATIONAL, NATIONAL, AND SUPRA-NATIONAL APPROACHES (William C.G. Burns & Hari M. Osofsky, eds.) (forthcoming 2007, Cambridge University Press). To read an abstract of this article, click here.

"Courts as Guardians of the Global Trust" (article in progress, 2008).

NATURE'S TRUST (book work in progress).

"Beyond the 'Fiction' and 'Fantasy' of Geer's State Ownership Doctrine: A Post-Hughes Reiteration of the Sovereign Property Interest in Wildlife Populations" (work in progress).

"Nature's Trust: Reclaiming an Environmental Discourse," Chapter in POLLUTION: POLICIES AND PERSPECTIVES (Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University Press (ICFAI Press), Hyderbad, India, Fall 2007) (originally published by the Virginia Environmental Law Journal, 2007).

"Nature's Trust: A Legal, Political and Moral Frame for Global Warming," 34:3 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review (May 2007).

"Nature's Trust: Reclaiming an Environmental Discourse," 25:2 Virginia L. J. (May 2007).

"EPA's Protection of Tribal Harvests: Braiding the Agency's Mission," 34:1 Ecology Law Quarterly (April 2007).

TEACHER'S MANUAL, NATURAL RESOURCES LAW (with Jan Laitos, Sandi Zellmer and Dan Cole) (West Publishing, January 2007).

"Salmon for Sale: Tribes, Treaties, and Fishing Rights," Oregon's Future 34 (Winter 2006).

NATURAL RESOURCES LAW (with Jan Laitos, Sandi Zellmer and Dan Cole) (West Publishing, 2006).

"Restoring the Abundant Trust: Tribal Litigation in Pacific Northwest Salmon Recovery," 36 Environmental Law Reporter, 10163 (2006).

"Indian Forest Laws," Chapter in HANDBOOK OF FEDERAL INDIAN LAW (Lexis/Nexis Publishing 2005).

For a complete list of Professor Wood's publications, please see her curriculum vitae.

Other Publications

"C.E.S. Wood Documentary Premiere--Remarks," Address, Premiere of the PBS documentary, "C.E.S. Wood" (February 7, 2008), Oregon Historical Society, available at: http://ohs.org/education/focus/ces-wood-film-premiere.cfm.

"Government's Atmospheric Trust Responsibility," Feature of the Week, Presidential Climate Action Project, www.climateactionproject.com (re-publication of a keynote address given at the 2007 J.E.L.L. Climate Change Conference) (December 4, 2007).

"Team Up to Tackle Climate Change," Oregon Daily Emerald (November 2, 2007), available here.

"Regaining Nature's Trust," ÁViva! Mercy Magazine, Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, Silver Spring, MD, http://www.sistersofmercy.org/ (September/October Edition, 2007).

"Nature's Mandate, Our Obligation," 33: 3 Down to Earth 9 (Montana Environmental Information Center, September 2007), available at: http://www.meic.org/files/energy/global-warming/NaturesTrust.pdf.

"Nature's Mandate, Our Obligation," Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed, http://www.climatecrisiscoalition.org/blog/?m=20070807. (re-publication of a speech given at the 2007 Southwest Renewable Energy Conference) (August 2007).

"Rachel's News # 907: "Discretion or Obligation," available at, Montague, Peter and Tim Montague, eds., (May 2007).

"Government and Climate Crisis: Discretion or Obligation?" Eugene Weekly online (May 4, 2007), available at: http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2007/05/10/news1.html.

"Oregon State Legislature's Responsibility to Address Global Warming," Legislative Briefing Packet for Oregon Senate Judiciary Committee, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR (February 16, 2007).

"Now is Time to Stem Global Warming," Opinion Editorial, Vancouver Columbian (Feb. 9, 2007).

"Demand Global Warming Legislation," Opinion Editorial, Idaho Statesman (Jan. 21, 2007).

"A UN Warning Americans Should Not Ignore," Opinion Editorial, Long Valley Advocate (Feb. 7, 2007).

"Bureaucrats Violate Trust By Ignoring Preservation," Opinion Editorial, The Register-Guard (Jan. 12, 2007).

"Trust in Property Rights to Stem Global Warming," Opinion Editorial, The Star News (Dec. 21, 2006).