Philip Joseph

Philip Austin Joseph KC is a lawyer and a professor of law at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is the author of Joseph on Constitutional and Administrative Law, a leading authority on public law in New Zealand. He has been described as a leading legal academic with a global reputation on administrative and constitutional law, collectively known as public law.

Education Professor Joseph's educational background began with an LLB (Hons) from the University of Canterbury in 1973. He continued his studies at the University of British Columbia, where he received an LLM in 1982. He concluded his formal education with a Doctor of Laws (LLD) from the University of Canterbury in 2003.

Career Joseph was admitted to the bar in 1974, and appointed professor of law in 2001.

Philip Joseph served as a consultant at the law firm Russell McVeagh for 17 years. , he practices as a barrister sole, focusing on litigation and occasionally representing clients in court. Additionally, he has provided advisory services or served as an expert witness before parliamentary select committees and has offered counsel to various government departments and organisations. Just a handful of academic KCs exist in New Zealand, the first of whom was another University of Canterbury faculty of law member, John Burrows, in 2005. So it is rare that an academic, like Joseph, became a KC, however this was based solely on legal excellence.