Victoria Law wins big at Legal Research Foundation Writing Awards
Joanna Mossop, a Senior Lecturer at Victoria’s Faculty of Law, has jointly won the prestigious JF Northey Memorial Book Award for her book The Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles: Rights and Responsibilities (Oxford University Press, 2016).
The Legal Research Foundation, which awards annual prizes for legal writing, announced the winners of the 2016 Annual Writing Awards at their AGM in Auckland this month. The JF Northey award is given to the best book published in 2016 by a New Zealand based author (or authors). The other winner was Jane Calderwood Norton for Freedom of Religious Organisations (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Law of the Sea expert Ms Mossop’s book is the consolidation of several years of research (featured on the cover of Victorious magazine last year), which was supported by a grant from the New Zealand Law Foundation. It covers the legal issues surrounding activities associated with the extended continental shelf including fishing, oil, gas and mineral exploitation, marine scientific research and the associated environmental protections and impacts.
“I’m delighted to have won the JF Northey Memorial Book Award. A great many excellent legal books are published each year by New Zealand authors, so I was surprised and honoured to receive this prize. I’m grateful for all the assistance I received along the way, including from the Law Foundation and my colleagues at Victoria University’s Law School,” Mossop says.
Also recognised was Dr Greg Severinsen, a former PhD student at the Faculty of Law, who was awarded the Unpublished Postgraduate Paper Award for ‘Applying Principles of Environmental Law to Novel Technologies: The Case for Carbon Capture and Storage’. Dr Severinsen recently wrote a piece for Newsroom on the same topic.