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). Dojčinović’s forthcoming volume, A Philosophical Approach to War Crimes Trials: Between Theory and Practice (edited by Wibke K. Timmermann and Predrag Dojčinović, Routledge, 2025), delves into key philosophical concepts that have historically posed challenges in both past and present international criminal trials. He is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled A Mouthful of Crimes: The Theory and Practice of Prosecuting Propagandists in Atrocity Trials. This work aims to provide a comprehensive overview and analysis of the so-called “propaganda cases” tried before international criminal tribunals. Additionally, it will offer guidelines for future investigations and prosecutions of political and military leaders, as well as their associates, within the framework of the four core international crimes: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and aggression.
In 2014, Dojčinović 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 Human Rights Institute, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses on “Theory and Practice of International Criminal Justice.”
From 1998 to 2017, Dojčinović worked for the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He provided expertise in over twenty international and national war crimes trials, including the cases of Slobodan Milošević, Vojislav Šešelj, Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladić, and Stanišić & Simatović, among others. At the OTP-ICTY, Dojčinović worked on investigations, prosecutions, and appeals cases. He has also taught courses, lectures, and seminars at prestigious institutions such as the London School of Economics; Amherst College; The New School in New York City; the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences; VU University of Amsterdam; the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies in the Netherlands; Princeton University; Leiden University College in 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 non-academic institutions. Additionally, he serves as a senior consultant and research advisor to various institutions and organizations in the field of international criminal justice.
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. This collection features documents from the final trial held at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) between 2011 and 2017 and honors his work in the field. The Dodd Center holds one of the largest collections of original documents from the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (IMT) in 1945-46.
