Predrag Dojčinović
Adjunct Professor & Research Affiliate, Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute
Senior Consultant and Research Advisor in International Criminal Justice
Predrag Dojčinović is the author of Propaganda, War Crimes Trials, and International Law: From Speakers’ Corner to War Crimes(Routledge, 2012) and Propaganda and International Criminal Law: From Cognition to Criminality (Routledge, 2020), and co-editor, with Wibke K. Timmermann, of A Philosophical Approach to War Crimes Trials: Between Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2026).
In 2014, he served as the Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights at the University of Connecticut. Since 2016, he has been an Adjunct Professor and Research Affiliate at the university’s Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the theory and practice of international criminal justice. He also serves as Research Director of the ICTY Digital Archive project, focusing on the organization and preservation of the core legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)’s original trial records.
From 1998 to 2017, Dojčinović worked in the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) at the ICTY and the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), contributing to investigations, prosecutions, and appeals. He provided expertise in more than twenty international and national war crimes trials, including those of Slobodan Milošević, Vojislav Šešelj, Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladić, and Stanišić & Simatović. He has taught courses, delivered lectures, and led seminars at numerous institutions worldwide, including the London School of Economics; Amherst College; The New School (New York City); the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Princeton University; Leiden University College The Hague; the Department of Justice Studies at Montclair State University; Northumbria Law School at Northumbria University; and the International Criminal Court in The Hague, among many other academic and professional settings. In addition, he serves as a senior consultant and research advisor to various national and international institutions in the field of international criminal justice, including the International Nuremberg Principles Academy and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).
In 2020, in recognition of his contributions to international criminal justice, the Dodd Center for Human Rights at the University of Connecticut curated The Predrag Dojčinović Collection: Ratko Mladić Genocidal Intent Documents. The collection features materials from the final ICTY trial (2011–2017) and honors his work in the field.
