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Mary Wood (2006-07)

Mary Wood, UO Philip H. Knight Professor of Law, has published extensively on the Indian trust doctrine, treaty rights, and environmental issues facing native nations. She is an award-winning teacher on Indian and natural resource law. Professor Wood conducted a study during her residency on "Tribes as Trustees Again: The Emerging Tribal Role in the Global Conservation Movement." She is a coauthor of a textbook in natural resources law (West, 2006) in which she presents a full framework of federal, tribal, state and individual ownership. Professor Wood is currently working on a book entitled Nature's Trust: A Legal Paradigm for Protecting Land and Natural Resources for Future Generations.

During 2005-06, Wood was awarded a Morse Center project grant; she wrote and lectured around the Northwest on tribal efforts to reclaim and protect fisheries. Her article "Restoring the Abundant Trust: Tribal Litigation in Pacific Northwest Salmon Recovery," was published by the Environmental Law Institute of Washington, D.C.

Wood's article concerning global warming was published January 12, 2007, in the Register-Guard.

Wood delivered the keynote speech on "Nature's Trust: a Legal, Political, Economic, and Moral Frame for Global Warming" to the 2007 Renewable Energy Conference in Boulder, Colorado. Click here for speech (132K).

Read Mary Wood's speech to the City Club of Eugene given May 4, 2007, published in the Eugene Weekly May 10, 2007. Click here for speech.

Straight.com — Published January 19, 2009. “Obama, at the Threshold Catastrophic Climate Change, Already Has the Tools to Act” by Mary Wood UO Law Professor and Tim Ream 2008-09 Wayne Morse Fellow / Straight.com Read article. (304K PDF)

 

 



 

 

 








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