Dr Jelena Gligorijevic specialises in media law, and constitutional law and theory, with particular interest and expertise in privacy law.

Dr Gligorijevic 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 Gligorijevic's article on an Australian common law tort of interference with privacy will be published in the UNSW Law Journal in 2021. Her article on children’s privacy was published in the Human Rights Law Review, and her article on privacy and proportionality was published in Public Law. She has also published in the Journal of Media Law, on open justice, privacy and freedom of expression, and in the New Zealand Law Journal, on parliamentary privilege. 

Dr Gligorijevic’s 2019 UKCLA note, ‘Unconstitutional Abuse of Parliamentary Privilege’, was cited by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales in his address to the Commonwealth Law Conference. Her other commentaries on current issues in constitutional law and media law have been cited by scholars in the UK, the US, Israel and Australia, including, recently, her 2020 note on 'Government Accountability for the Lawfulness of Lockdown', which was cited in the Public Law Review.   

In addition to her own scholarship on privacy law, Dr Gligorijevic has been invited to write book reviews on the developing literature on privacy, including, most recently, by the Cambridge Law Journal.

Over the past four years, Dr Gligorijevic has been invited to present her work to the Cambridge Centre for Public Law; the Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy; the Society of Legal Scholars; the biennial Public Law Conference; the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies (biennial Freedom of Speech Symposium); Trinity College, Dublin; McGill University, Montreal; Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster; KU Leuven; Università Degli Studi di Genova; and the Trinity Forum, Cambridge.

Dr Gligorijevic is also the founding convenor of the ANU Law & Philosophy Forum, which promotes research, discussion, and exchanges on various topics in law and philosophy, covering both private law and public law, and issues within both legal and political philosophy.

Before she commenced her studies at the University of Cambridge, Dr Gligorijevic practised as a solicitor in a commercial law firm in Wellington, New Zealand, specialising in public law and international trade.