Joanna Mossop

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.

Academic career

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. Her 2002 thesis was on the relationship between scientific uncertainty in international fisheries law and adaptive management. On her return, Mossop joined the faculty of Victoria University, rising to full professor in 2022. Mossop spent several months over 2019–2020 at the Edinburgh Law School on a McCormick Fellowship. She has also been a visiting professor at the University of Lincoln.

Mossop has been or is on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including Marine Policy, the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law and the Asia Pacific Journal of Oceans Law and Policy.

Mossop was Vice President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law.

Selected works

Books

Journal articles