Anna Marie Brennan

Dr Anna Marie Brennan BCLGA(Hons), LL.B. (Hons), LL.M. (First Class Honours), PhD is a Senior Lecturer (Above the Bar) in Law at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. In 2024, she was awarded the prestigious Borrin Foundation Women Leaders in Law Fellowship. From 2019 to 2023, she served on the Executive Leadership Team of Te Piringa Faculty of Law as Convenor of Research and was Acting Dean in 2023.

In 2024, Dr Brennan was appointed to the Working Group on the Future of the Moon Agreement at the International Institute for Space Law. She currently serves as the New Zealand Chair of the AI and Space Law Society, which advocates for the responsible and sustainable development of space in the age of artificial intelligence, emphasizing its role in addressing global challenges. She is also a member of the Committee of the International Peace and Security Interest Group at the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law.

Dr Brennan has held academic positions at the University of Liverpool (United Kingdom) and University College Cork (Ireland). Her research spans international criminal law, international humanitarian law, counter-terrorism, and outer space law. She is the author of the monograph Transnational Terrorist Groups and International Criminal Law (Routledge, 2018), and editor of The Future of Outer Space Law (Routledge, 2025).