Dr Filip Šaranović, LLB (Southampton), LLM (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge)
Senior Lecturer in Shipping Law
Email: f.saranovic@qmul.ac.uk
Profile
Dr Filip Saranovic is a Senior Lecturer in Shipping Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. He is the Director of the International Shipping Law LLM programme and the Deputy Director of International and External Engagement. Filip is the module convenor and lecturer for four maritime law modules, covering both wet and dry shipping as well as the conflict of laws / enforcement of maritime claims. Filip’s book entitled ‘Freezing Injunctions in Private International Law’ was published by Cambridge University Press in October 2022. The book is based on his doctoral thesis completed at the University of Cambridge. Part of the research for the book was conducted in the United States where he was a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School. Filip is an Ordinary Member of the European Association of Private International Law and has presented his research at numerous conferences both in the UK and abroad. He was a judicial marshal in London’s High Court, shadowing the work of Mrs Justice Gloster when she was the judge in charge of the Commercial Court. Filip is also an External Examiner for the private international law module at King’s College London. Prior to joining Queen Mary, Filip was a member of the Institute of Maritime Law at the University of Southampton where he was the Academic Lead for Executive Training. Filip’s work on transnational commercial injunctions has drawn the attention of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism who interviewed him in relation to their recent articles on high-value cross-border litigation in London.