Dr Jelena Gligorijević specialises in media law, and constitutional law and theory.

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's article on an Australian common law tort of interference with privacy has recently been published in the UNSW Law Journal. 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 Gligorijević’s 2019 UKCLA note, ‘Unconstitutional Abuse of Parliamentary Privilege’, was cited by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales in his Commonwealth Law Conference address. Her other commentaries on constitutional and media law have been cited by scholars in the UK, US, Israel and Australia, including her 2020 note on 'Government Accountability for the Lawfulness of Lockdown', cited in the Public Law Review.   

Dr Gligorijević’s work on privacy has been adopted by the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department in its Privacy Act Review Discussion Paper (October 2021), which shapes and sets out specific proposals for a new Australian tort of interference with privacy. One option proposed in the Discussion Paper is a minimalist statutory tort, which Dr Gligorijevic has advocated in her research and submissions to that Review.

Dr Gligorijević is also currently assisting with a major government-funded review of Tasmania's privacy laws.

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

Dr Gligorijević has been invited to present her work to the Cambridge Centre for Public Law; Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy; 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.