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Joanna Mossop
New Zealand law professor
Joanna Claire Mossop is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in the law of the sea, including conservation law, and laws outside national jurisdictions.
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| Alma mater | Columbia University |
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| Institutions | Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington, Faculty of Law |
Mossop completed a double degree at Victoria University of Wellington and joined Buddle Findlay as a solicitor. She then left New Zealand to complete a master of laws degree at Columbia University.[1] Her 2002 thesis was on the relationship between scientific uncertainty in international fisheries law and adaptive management.[2] On her return, Mossop joined the faculty of Victoria University, rising to full professor in 2022.[3] Mossop spent several months over 2019–2020 at the Edinburgh Law School on a McCormick Fellowship.[4] She has also been a visiting professor at the University of Lincoln.[3]
Mossop works on public international law, and has published on maritime security, and how to reconcile economic activity in marine environments with biodiversity protection. Mossop is a co-principal investigator on a 2021 Marsden grant "Reimagining ocean law to achieve equitable and sustainable use of marine ecosystems".[3][5]
Mossop has been or is on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including Marine Policy,[6] the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law and the Asia Pacific Journal of Oceans Law and Policy.[7]
Mossop was Vice President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law.[7] She is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law,[6] and in 2019 she was nominated by the New Zealand government to the list of arbitrators and conciliators in Annex V and VII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and was the only non-government legal adviser of the four New Zealand nominations.[6] She was involved in the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Treaty.[3]
She is a part of the World Maritime University.[4]
Mossop won university teaching awards in 2018 and 2021.[3]
Mossop's 2016 book The Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles jointly won the J. F. Northey Memorial Prize. The prize is awarded by the Legal Research Foundation for the best legal book by a New Zealand author.[7][8][9]
Books
- Mossop, Joanna (December 2016). The Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles: Rights and Responsibilities. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/law/9780198766094.001.0001. ISBN 9780198766094.
- Mossop, Joanna; Klein, Natalie; Rothwell, Donald R., eds. (9 October 2009). Maritime Security: International Law and Policy Perspectives from Australia and New Zealand. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203867471. ISBN 9780203867471.
Journal articles
- Joanna Mossop; Clive Schofield (December 2020). "Adjacency and due regard: The role of coastal States in the BBNJ treaty". Marine Policy. 122: 103877. doi:10.1016/J.MARPOL.2020.103877. ISSN 0308-597X. Wikidata Q114732835.
- Joanna Mossop (25 July 2022), Maritime Security and the Law of the Sea, pp. 86–95, doi:10.4324/9781003001324-9, Wikidata Q124302429
- Joanna Mossop (29 February 2016). "Protests against Oil Exploration at Sea: Lessons from the Arctic Sunrise Arbitration". International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law. 31 (1): 60–87. doi:10.1163/15718085-12341383. ISSN 0927-3522. Wikidata Q124302430.
- Joanna Mossop (30 October 2015), Reconciling activities on the extended continental shelf with protection of the marine environment, doi:10.4337/9781781004777.00017, Wikidata Q124302431
- Joanna Mossop (31 August 2007). "Protecting Marine Biodiversity on the Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles". Ocean Development and International Law. 38 (3): 283–304. doi:10.1080/00908320701530474. ISSN 0090-8320. Wikidata Q124302435.
- Guillermo Ortuño Crespo; Joanna Mossop; Daniel Dunn; et al. (27 July 2020). "Beyond static spatial management: Scientific and legal considerations for dynamic management in the high seas". Marine Policy. 122: 104102. doi:10.1016/J.MARPOL.2020.104102. ISSN 0308-597X. Wikidata Q112606062.
- Victoria University of Wellington. "Professor Joanna Mossop". people.wgtn.ac.nz. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- Mossop, Joanna C. (2002). International fisheries law and adaptive management: addressing scientific uncertainty in ecosystem management (LLM thesis). Columbia Law School.
- Wellington, Victoria University of (7 February 2023). "Promotion to Professor 2022 | News | Victoria University of Wellington". www.wgtn.ac.nz. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- Institute, WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean (25 March 2019). "Joanna Mossop". COLP43. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- "Marsden Fund awards 2021". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- Elsevier. "Editorial Board: Marine Policy: Assoc. Professor Joanna C. Mossop, LLB(Hons), BA, LLM". Elsevier. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
- "Joanna Mossop". Asia Media Centre | New Zealand. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- "Legal Research Foundation - Writing Awards". www.legalresearch.org.nz. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- "*Just announced VUW's Joanna Mossop is Joint winner of 2016 JF Northey Award | The Law Foundation". Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- Mossop's inaugural professorial lecture, September 2023