Professor Mary Wood, a distinguished Philip H. Knight Professor, the Faculty Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center of the University of Oregon, and the author of Nature’s Trust. Her groundbreaking book proposes a paradigm shift in environmental law, based an application of public trust doctrine, by which natural resources (including a carbon-stable atmosphere) are owned by all citizens equally as a trust asset, and the view that the government is a trustee with a restorative duty not only to prevent future damage, but also to repair past harms. Prof. Wood has been involved in several environmental litigations suites, inspiring the legal action undertaken by the non-profit organization “Our Children’s Trust”. Her views on environmental law are as compelling as her influence in the legal arena may prove transformative.