Dr. Vladimir Petrovic obtained his BA and MPhil in contemporary history from Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy and his MA and PhD from Central European University (CEU) in Budapest.

He was an intern and analyst in the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor's Office and in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and he completed his postdoctoral researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Dr. Petrovic lectures in the Legal Department of Central European University and is a researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade.

His current academic interests are at the intersection of history and law in the practice of historical expert witnessing, as well as in the history of human rights breaches in the former Yugoslavia.