ANU College of Law lecturer Dr Jelena Gligorijević FHEA has been named the inaugural Gerard McCoy Visiting Fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Dr Jelena Gligorijevic
Senior Lecturer
PhD (Cantab.); LLM (First Class Hons) (Cantab.); LLB (First Class Hons) (Cantuar.); BA (Cantuar.); FHEA; Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.
ANU College of Law, Bld 7, Fellows Rd, Acton ACT 2600
ANU College of Law, 5 Fellows Rd, Acton ACT 2600
Research Themes
Research Centre
Biography
Dr Jelena Gligorijević specialises in media law, and constitutional law and theory.
Dr Gligorijević's article on a common law tort of interferene with privacy has been cited by the High Court of Australia (Farm Transparency v NSW [2022] HCA 23 (Gageler J, [90]) as academic authority on the proper interaction between legal protections for privacy and the implied constitutional freedom of political communication.
In 2019, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales cited with approval Dr Gligorijević’s UKCLA note, ‘Unconstitutional Abuse of Parliamentary Privilege’, in his Commonwealth Law Conference address.
Dr Gligorijević’s work on privacy has been adopted and cited in the recommendations of the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department in its Privacy Act Review Report (February 2023), on the general need for a new Australian tort of interference with privacy.
Dr Gligorijević holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College), and an LLM (First Class Honours) also from the University of Cambridge. Her LLB (First Class Honours) and BA (German, and Political Science) are from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Her doctoral work, which has been cited in the Cambridge Law Journal (2019), examined the nature and resolution of rights conflicts by common law courts, focusing on the conflict between privacy and freedom of expression. Her PhD was conferred by the University of Cambridge in 2020.
Dr Gligorijević publishes widely in apex peer-reviewed journals, including on defamation law in the Federal Law Review, children’s privacy in the Human Rights Law Review, privacy and proportionality in Public Law, open justice, privacy and freedom of expression in the Journal of Media Law, and parliamentary privilege in the New Zealand Law Journal. Her scholarship, as well as her online academic commentaries, have been adopted and cited by scholars world-wide, including in the UK, US, Israel and Australia.
Dr Gligorijevic is regularly invited to write book reviews, including by the Cambridge Law Journal, to contribute to federal law reform processes, and to provide expert commentary on media and constitutional law by international and national newspapers and broadcasters.
Dr Gligorijević has been invited to present her research to the Cambridge Centre for Public Law; Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy; Privacy Law Scholars Conference; Society of Legal Scholars; biennial Public Law Conference; Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, Melbourne; Trinity College, Dublin; McGill University, Montreal; Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster; KU Leuven; Università Degli Studi di Genova; and Trinity Forum, Cambridge.
Dr Gligorijević is the founding convenor of the ANU Law & Philosophy Forum.
Appointments
Deputy Associate Dean (Higher Degree Research) (2023-)
Research Committee, ANU College of Law (faculty's ERC representative) (2022-2024)
Gerard McCoy Visiting Fellow, University of Canterbury Faculty of Law (awarded 2021, for 2023).
Convenor of Higher Degree Research, ANU College of Law (Feb 2022-Feb 2023)
Deputy Director of Higher Degree Research, ANU College of Law (Aug 2021-Feb 2022)
Editorial Board, Federal Law Review (Aug 2019 - Dec 2021).
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2020-).
Affiliated Member of the ANU Centre for Moral, Social and Political Theory (2021-).
ANU Law & Philosophy Forum, founding convenor (2020-).
Visitors and Honorary Appointments Committee, ANU College of Law (Aug 2019 - Aug 2021).
Contributing member, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy, Policy Forum (Asia & the Pacific Policy Society) (2021-)
Significant research publications
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J Gligorijević “Privacy, Liberty and Security: Implications for the Legitimacy of Governmental Surveillance” forthcoming in A Brunon-Ernst, J Gligorijevic, D Manderson and C Wrobel (eds) Law, Surveillance and the Humanities (EUP, 2023), Chapter 5.
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A Brunon-Ernst, J Gligorijević D Manderson and C Wrobel (eds) Law, Surveillance and the Humanities (EUP, 2023).
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J Gligorijević "Taming the ‘chilling effect’ of defamation law: English experience and implications for Australia" (2022) 50(2) Federal Law Review 221-248.
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J Gligorijević "A Common Law Tort of Interference with Privacy for Australia: Reaffirming ABC v Lenah Game Meats" (2021) 44(2) UNSW Law Journal 673.
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cited in Farm Transparency International Ltd v State of NSW [2022] HCA 23, per Gageler J, [90].
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- J Gligorijević "Children’s privacy: The Role of Parental Control and Consent" (2019) 19(2) Human Rights Law Review 201-229.
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J Gligorijević "Privacy at the Intersection of Public Law and Private Law" [2019] Public Law 563-580.
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J Gligorijević “Publication restrictions on judgments and judicial proceedings: problems with the presumptive equivalence of rights” (2017) 9(2) Journal of Media Law 215-231.
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J Gligorijević “Parliamentary privilege reaffirmed” [2014] NZLJ 393.
Forthcoming:
- J Gligorijevic “Tort-Based Protections for Data Privacy” in D Clifford, J Paterson and KH Lau Data Rights and Private Law (Hart, forthcoming: 2023), Chapter 9.
Book reviews:
- J Gligorijević, ‘Book Review: A Free and Regulated Press: Defending Coercive Independent Press Regulation by Paul Wragg’ (2022) 44(2) Sydney Law Review 339.
- J Gligorijević "Protecting Personal Information: The Right to Privacy Reconsidered by A Monti and R Wacks" (2020) 79(3) Cambridge Law Journal 192.
Media / Online articles:
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J Gligorijević "Game, Set and Match for the Rule of Law", 10 January 2022, UK Constitutional Law Association (accessible at: https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2022/01/10/jelena-gligorijevic-game-set-...)
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J Gligorijević “Freedom of expression, or protection from harm? Regulating online media”, 22 January 2021, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy’s Policy Forum (accessible at: https://www.policyforum.net/freedom-of-expression-or-protection-from-harm/)
- J Gligorijević "(Un)lawful Lockdown and Government Accountability", 11 May 2020, Scoop Media (accessible at: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2005/S00087/unlawful-lockdown-and-gove...)
- J Gligorijević "Government Accountability for the Lawfulness of Lockdown", 11 May 2020, UK Constitutional Law Association (accessible at: https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2020/05/11/jelena-gligorijevic-government-accountability-for-the-lawfulness-of-lockdown-new-zealand-parliamentary-scrutiny-and-privileged-legal-advice/)
- J Gligorijević “Coronavirus, Media Reportage and Patient Privacy”, 7 March 2020, Inforrm (accessible at https://inforrm.org/2020/03/07/coronavirus-media-reportage-and-patient-p...)
- J Gligorijević “Forcing online platforms to remove footage of violent attacks: could privacy help?”, 21 March 2019, Inforrm (accessible at https://inforrm.org/2019/03/21/forcing-online-platforms-to-remove-footage-of-violent-attacks-could-privacy-help-jelena-gligorijevic/)
- J Gligorijević “Breaching Injunctions in Parliament: An Unconstitutional Abuse of Parliamentary Privilege”, 29 October 2018, UK Constitutional Law Association (accessible at: https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2018/10/29/jelena-gligorijevic-breaching-injunctions-in-parliament-an-unconstitutional-abuse-of-parliamentary-privilege/)
- J Gligorijević “Upholding celebrities’ privacy and problematising news media claims to freedom of expression: Sir Cliff Richard v BBC”, 29 July 2018, Inforrm (accessible at https://inforrm.org/2018/07/29/upholding-celebrities-privacy-and-problematising-news-media-claims-to-freedom-of-expression-sir-cliff-richard-v-bbc-jelena-gligorijevic/)
View more publications on the ANU Researchers website
Recent news
In the Media
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Sep
2022
Jelena Gligorijevic interviewed by Sky News
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Jan
2022
Jelena Gligorijevic writes in UK Constitutional Law Association
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Dec
2021
Jelena Gligorijevic quoted in The Washington Post
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Jan
2021
Jelena Gligorijevic speaks to The Australian
Past events
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Mar
2023
1.00PM to 2.00PM ANU Law and Philosophy Forum
Join Rei Takahashi (University of Tokyo) as he presents his paper on “Group Well-Being and Political Theory".
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1.00PM to 2.00PM ANU Law and Philosophy Forum
Join Professor Ralph Brubaker and Professor Heidi M Hurd (University of Illinois) as they present their paper “The Virtue of Bankruptcy”.
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Nov
2022
6.00PM to 7.00PM ANU Law and Philosophy Forum
The ANU Law & Philosophy Forum is delighted to announce its final meeting in 2022: Nick McBride (Cambridge University) will present his paper on The Nature of Evil.
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Aug
2022
6.00PM to 7.00PM ANU Law and Philosophy Forum
- Joshua Jowitt
The ANU Law & Philosophy Forum is delighted to announce its fourth meeting in 2022: Dr Joshua Jowitt will present his work-in-progress on “Moral Personhood as Legal Personhood”.
View more publications on the ANU Researchers website
Research biography
Dr Gligorijevic’s current research projects cover the fields of media law and constitutional law and theory, particularly privacy, freedom of expression, and judicial scrutiny of governmental power.
Her published research has been cited and adopted by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (extra curially), the High Court of Australia (Hon Justice Gageler in Farm Transparency v NSW [2022] HCA 23), and by the Commonwealth Attrorney-General's Department (in its privacy law reform recommendations), as well as by scholars across the world in their own research and commentaries.
Recently, Dr Gligorijevic was awarded the Gerard McCoy Visiting Fellowship, at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
While at Cambridge, Dr Gligorijevic was a researcher at the Centre for Intellectual Property at Information Law, where she conducted research into the free speech implications of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’).
Research projects & collaborations
J Gligorijević “Privacy, Liberty and Security: Implications for the Legitimacy of Governmental Surveillance” forthcoming in A Brunon-Ernst, J Gligorijevic, D Manderson and C Wrobel (eds) Law, Surveillance and the Humanities (EUP, 2023), Chapter 5.
A Brunon-Ernst, J Gligorijević D Manderson and C Wrobel (eds) Law, Surveillance and the Humanities (EUP, 2023).
J Gligorijevic "Taming the ‘chilling effect’ of defamation law: English experience and implications for Australia" (2022) 50(2) Federal Law Review 221-248.
J Gligorijevic "A Common Law Tort of Interference with Privacy for Australia: Reaffirming ABC v Lenah Game Meats" (2021) 44(2) UNSW Law Journal 673.
- cited in Farm Transparency International Ltd v State of NSW [2022] HCA 23, per Gageler J, [90].
J Gligorijevic "Children’s privacy: The Role of Parental Control and Consent" (2019) 19(2) Human Rights Law Review 201-229.
J Gligorijević "Privacy at the Intersection of Public Law and Private Law" [2019] Public Law 563-580.
J Gligorijević “Publication restrictions on judgments and judicial proceedings: problems with the presumptive equivalence of rights” (2017) 9(2) Journal of Media Law 215-231.
J Gligorijevic “Parliamentary privilege reaffirmed” [2014] NZLJ 393.
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J Gligorijevic “Tort-Based Protections for Data Privacy” in D Clifford, J Paterson and KH Lau Data Rights and Private Law (Hart, forthcoming: 2023), Chapter 9.
Grants
Gerard McCoy Visiting Fellowship (fully-funded research fellowship: 2021, for 2023).
Tasmanian Law Reform Institute, contracted expert and co-investigator in major government-funded project: Review of Privacy Laws in Tasmania (RMDB Ref: h0027609/RT.115624) (2021-2022).
Rouse Ball / Eddington Funds research grant, Trinity College, Cambridge (UK; for research into: children’s privacy, the right to privacy and public law, and freedom of expression and harmful expression; 2017, 2018).
- J Gligorijevic "Privacy at the Intersection of Public Law and Private Law" [2019] Public Law 563-580.
- J Gligorijevic "Children’s privacy: The Role of Parental Control and Consent" (2019) 19(2) Human Rights Law Review 201-229.
Hollond Fund research grant, Trinity College, Cambridge (UK; for research into: conflicts between human rights, the right to privacy and public law, and freedom of expression and harmful expression; 2018).
- J Gligorijevic "Privacy at the Intersection of Public Law and Private Law" [2019] Public Law 563-580.
Yorke Fund research grant, University of Cambridge (UK; for research into the right to privacy and public law; 2017).
- J Gligorijevic "Privacy at the Intersection of Public Law and Private Law" [2019] Public Law 563-580
Postgraduate European Private Law Fund (PEPP) research grant (EU / UK; for research and collaboration on aspects of European private law - principal focus on: human rights remedies in English and Welsh private law, and English and Welsh approach to privacy in private law)
- J Gligorijevic “Publication restrictions on judgments and judicial proceedings: problems with the presumptive equivalence of rights” (2017) 9(2) Journal of Media Law 215-231.
Hollond-Whittaker Research Studentship in Law, Trinity College, Cambridge (UK; for doctoral research into rights conflicts, privacy and freedom of expression; 2016-2019).
LB Wood Fund grant (NZ; for graduate research in the UK; 2015-2016).
Gordon Watson Fund grant (NZ; for graduate research in the UK; 2015-2016).
Chevening Fund grant (UK; for graduate research in the UK; 2015-2016).
Consultancies
Dr Gligorijevic consults on a range of issues in both media law and constitutional law, and has provided advice to NGOs the UK and Australia.
Dr Gligorijevic is often asked to comment on legal issues in privacy, defamation, freedom of expression, and constitutional law, by leading news media, including The Washington Post, BBC News, CNN, The Australian, SkyNews, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and SBS News. Her interviews have been republished in international and national media.
Books & edited collections
A Brunon-Ernst, J Gligorijević D Manderson and C Wrobel (eds) Law, Surveillance and the Humanities (EUP, 2023).
Refereed journal articles
J Gligorijevic "Taming the ‘chilling effect’ of defamation law: English experience and implications for Australia" (2022) 50(2) Federal Law Review 221-248.
J Gligorijevic "A Common Law Tort of Interference with Privacy for Australia: Reaffirming ABC v Lenah Game Meats" (2021) 44(2) UNSW Law Journal 673.
- cited in Farm Transparency International Ltd v State of NSW [2022] HCA 23, per Gageler J, [90].
J Gligorijevic "Children’s privacy: The Role of Parental Control and Consent" (2019) 19(2) Human Rights Law Review 201-229.
J Gligorijević "Privacy at the Intersection of Public Law and Private Law" [2019] Public Law 563-580.
J Gligorijević “Publication restrictions on judgments and judicial proceedings: problems with the presumptive equivalence of rights” (2017) 9(2) Journal of Media Law 215-231.
J Gligorijevic “Parliamentary privilege reaffirmed” [2014] NZLJ 393.
Book chapters
J Gligorijević “Privacy, Liberty and Security: Implications for the Legitimacy of Governmental Surveillance” forthcoming in A Brunon-Ernst, J Gligorijevic, D Manderson and C Wrobel (eds) Law, Surveillance and the Humanities (EUP, 2023), Chapter 5.
J Gligorijevic “Tort-Based Protections for Data Privacy” in D Clifford, J Paterson and KH Lau Data Rights and Private Law (Hart, forthcoming: 2023), Chapter 9.
Conference papers & presentations
“Emergency, Acquiescence, and Accountability: Re-making the judicial role in scrutinising executive power?”, Public Law Conference, University College Dublin, July 2022.
“Public Wrongdoing and the Limits of the Right to Privacy”, Privacy Law Scholars Conference, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, June 2022.
“Privacy and Tort Law: protecting informational privacy at common law”, Data Rights and Private Law Colloquium, University of Melbourne Law School and ANU College of Law, November 2021.
“Narrowing the tort of defamation: serious harm threshold and public interest defence - English experience and implications for Australia”, Defamation Law Conference: The Changing Landscape of Defamation Law, ANU College of Law, July 2021.
“Recalling the Normative Importance of Privacy”, Privacy Awareness Week Panel with Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG (by invitation), ANU College of Law, May 2021.
"A Liberal Approach to Freedom of Expression", Freedom of Speech Symposium, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, University of Melbourne, November 2020.
"Privacy as Liberty and Security: Implications for the Legitimacy of Governmental Surveillance", ANU Surveillance and the Humanities Conference, September 2020.
"Freedom of Expression, Liberalism and Harmful Expression", ANU Centre for International and Public Law, August 2020.
“Privacy, freedom of expression, and English common law”, Trinity College, Cambridge, June 2019.
“Critique of: J Waldron, The Harm in Hate Speech (2012, HUP, Cambridge, Mass.)”, Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy (by invitation), January 2019.
“Privacy and freedom of expression after Sir Cliff Richard v BBC [2018] EWHC 1837 (Ch)”, Cambridge Centre for Public Law (by invitation), October 2018.
“Recognising and confronting conflicts between human rights”, Society of Legal Scholars Conference, Queen Mary University London, September 2018.
“Privacy at the Frontiers of Public Law”, Public Law Conference, University of Melbourne, July 2018
“Policing speech”, McGill University, Montreal, May 2018.
“Children’s privacy: the role of parental control and consent”, Trinity College Dublin, February 2018.
““Protecting Public Figure Privacy in English Private Law”, KU Leuven, March 2018.
“Critique of: A Preda “Are there any conflicts of rights?” (2015) 18 ETMP 677”, Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy (by invitation), December 2017.
Government submissions
Submissions to the Australian Attorney-General's Department, Review of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), submissions on Discussion Paper (4 January 2022).
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The Australian Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department Privacy Act Review Report (February 2023) adopted Dr Gligorijevic's research and submissions on the general need for a new privacy tort for Australia, citing her research and submissions in the Attorney-General’s recommendations to enact a statutory privacy tort (pp 281-287)
Submissions to the Australian Council of Attorneys-General, Review of the Model Defamation Provisions, Stage 2 (19 May 2021).
- cited in Consultation Paper: Review of the Model Defamation Provisions, Stage 2 Part B – Policy options (pp 11 and 12), published for the Commonwealth Attorneys-General Defamation Review by the Victorian Department of Justice and Community Safety (August 2022)
Submissions to the Australian Attorney-General's Department, Review of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), submissions on Issues Paper (28 November 2020).
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The Australian Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department Privacy Act Review Discussion Paper (October 2021) adopted Dr Gligorijevic's research and submissions in shaping and setting out specific proposals for a new Australian tort of interference with privacy, including, in particular, proposing a minimalist statutory tort as one option for reform, which is one option that Dr Gligorijevic has advocated in her research and submissions. Dr Gligorijevic is quoted and cited at pp 191-195 of the Discussion Paper.
Committees
ANU College of Law Research Committee (faculty's ERC representative, 2022 - 2024)
ANU College of Law Visitors and Honorary Academics Committee (Aug 2019 - Aug 2021)
Case notes & book reviews
J Gligorijević, ‘Book Review: A Free and Regulated Press: Defending Coercive Independent Press Regulation by Paul Wragg’ (2022) 44(2) Sydney Law Review 339.
J Gligorijevic "Protecting Personal Information: The Right to Privacy Reconsidered by A Monti and R Wacks" (2020) 79(3) Cambridge Law Journal 192.
Other
J Gligorijević "Game, Set and Match for the Rule of Law", 10 January 2022, UK Constitutional Law Association (accessible at: https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2022/01/10/jelena-gligorijevic-game-set-...)
J Gligorijevic “Freedom of expression, or protection from harm? Regulating online media”, 22 January 2021, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy’s Policy Forum (accessible at: https://www.policyforum.net/freedom-of-expression-or-protection-from-harm/)
J Gligorijevic "(Un)lawful Lockdown and Government Accountability", 11 May 2020, Scoop Media (accessible at: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2005/S00087/unlawful-lockdown-and-gove...)
J Gligorijević "Government Accountability for the Lawfulness of Lockdown", 11 May 2020, UK Constitutional Law Association (accessible at: https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2020/05/11/jelena-gligorijevic-governmen...)
J Gligorijević “Coronavirus, Media Reportage and Patient Privacy”, 7 March 2020, Inforrm (accessible at https://inforrm.org/2020/03/07/coronavirus-media-reportage-and-patient-p...)
J Gligorijević “Forcing online platforms to remove footage of violent attacks: could privacy help?”, 21 March 2019, Inforrm (accessible at https://inforrm.org/2019/03/21/forcing-online-platforms-to-remove-footag...)
J Gligorijević “Breaching Injunctions in Parliament: An Unconstitutional Abuse of Parliamentary Privilege”, 29 October 2018, UK Constitutional Law Association (accessible at: https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2018/10/29/jelena-gligorijevic-breaching...)
J Gligorijević “Upholding celebrities’ privacy and problematising news media claims to freedom of expression: Sir Cliff Richard v BBC”, 29 July 2018, Inforrm (accessible at https://inforrm.org/2018/07/29/upholding-celebrities-privacy-and-problem...)
PhD supervision
Dr Gligorijevic welcomes PhD research applications. She is particularly interested in applications from students pursuing projects in constitutional law, media law and legal theory; and, specifically, projects relating to defamation, privacy, freedom of expression, parliamentary processes and privileges, rights adjudication, and analytic philosophy in the law.
Philosophy & approach
Dr Gligorijevic is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Past courses
At the ANU College of Law, Dr Gligorijevic teaches Australian Public Law, Media Law (which she convenes), and research methods courses (undergraduate and graduate levels). Please see further details of past courses below.
At Cambridge, Dr Gligorijevic lectured or supervised in:
- Constitutional Law
- Civil Liberties and Human Rights
- Law and Information
ANU College of Law:
2023
Advanced Legal Methods and Legal Writing (LAWS8800/9800) - course convenor
Australian Public Law (LAWS1205/6105) - lecturer
Media Law (LAWS4202/8402) - course creator, convenor and lecturer
Legal Research & Writing (LAWS2248) - lecturer
2022
Torts (LAWS1203/6103) - course convenor and lecturer
Australian Public Law (LAWS1205/6105) - lecturer
Media Law (LAWS4202/8402) - course creator, convenor and lecturer
Legal Research & Writing (LAWS2248) - lecturer
2021
Torts (LAWS1203/6103) - lecturer
Australian Public Law (LAWS1205/6105) - lecturer
Media Law (LAWS4202/8402) - course creator, convenor and lecturer
Freedom of Information & Privacy (LAWS8243) - course convenor and lecturer
2020
Torts (LAWS1203/6103) - lecturer
Australian Public Law (LAWS1205/6105) - lecturer
Media Law (LAWS8402) - course creator, convenor and lecturer
Freedom of Information & Privacy (LAWS8243) - course convenor and lecturer
How my works connects with public policy
Dr Gligorijevic made submissions to the Australian Council of Attorneys-General on its Review of the Model Defamation Provisions (Stage 2), in May 2021. These submissions have been cited for their opposition to the extension of the absolute privilege defence to defamation actions, in the Consultation Paper: Review of the Model Defamation Provisions, Stage 2 Part B – Policy options (pp 11 and 12), published for the Commonwealth Attorneys-General Defamation Review by the Victorian Department of Justice and Community Safety (August 2022). Dr Gligorijevic has contributed by invitation to stakeholder roundtables in the Stage 2 review process, in 2021 and 2022.
Dr Gligorijevic also made submissions to the Australian Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department on its Review of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (submissions on Issues Paper), in November 2020. The Attorney-General’s Department Privacy Act Review Discussion Paper (October 2021) has adopted Dr Gligorijevic's research and submissions in shaping and setting out specific proposals for a new Australian tort of interference with privacy, including, in particular, proposing a minimalist statutory tort as one option for reform, which is one option that Dr Gligorijevic has advocated in her research and submissions. Dr Gligorijevic is quoted and cited at pp 191-195 of the Discussion Paper.
Subsequently, Dr Gligorijevic set out in greater detail her view of a minimalist statutory tort of interference with privacy, in her submissions to the Australian Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department on its Review of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (submissions on Discussion Paper), in January 2022. The Australian Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department Privacy Act Review Report (February 2023) adopted Dr Gligorijevic's research and submissions on the general need for a new privacy tort for Australia, citing her submissions on the Discussion Paper in the Attorney-General’s recommendations to enact a statutory privacy tort (pp 281-287).
Dr Gligorijevic's article in the University of New South Wales Law Journal (J Gligorijevic "A Common Law Tort of Interference with Privacy for Australia: Revitalising ABC v Lenah Game Meats" (2021) 44(2) UNSWLJ 673), also sets out a more detailed analysis of the protection of individual privacy in Australian law. This article has also been cited by the High Court of Australia, on how privacy should properly interact with the implied constitutional freedom of political communucation (Farm Transparency v NSW [2022] HCA 23 (Gageler J, [90]).
In 2021-22, Dr Gligorijevic was a contracted expert in a major government-funded project, the Review of Privacy Laws in Tasmania.
Dr Gligorijevic is also contributing member at the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy, Policy Forum (Asia & the Pacific Policy Society): J Gligorijevic “Freedom of expression, or protection from harm? Regulating online media”, 22 January 2021, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy’s Policy Forum (accessible at: https://www.policyforum.net/freedom-of-expression-or-protection-from-harm/)
