Summer London Faculty
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Greenwich, School of Law and Criminology
Dr. Dragana Spencer is a senior lecturer. She studied Law as an undergraduate at the University of Westminster, completing her LL.M. in International Law. Having been awarded a full Ph.D. scholarship by the School of Law, University of Westminster, she completed her doctorate in International Criminal Law in 2006. In the same year, she joined the law department at the University of Greenwich. Her research interests and teaching practice lie in international criminal law, public international law, human rights and public law. Specifically, her areas of expertise are in procedures and practices of international criminal courts and tribunals with a focus on defense rights and sentencing practices. She has published widely in international journals on various aspects of international and transitional criminal justice, including articles in the International Criminal Law Review, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law and the European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. In 2017 she was awarded the Peter Harris Trust Research Grant for research on language rights in war crimes trials. Dragana is fluent in Italian and Serbian and has advised governmental bodies and non-governmental agencies in the UK and abroad on implementation of procedural human rights and law reform. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
