Martha M Bradley is associate professor at the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Johannesburg. Prof Bradley is particularly proud to be an External Expert at CIHOL.

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Dr Bradley has held research positions at two academic institutions, locally and abroad. After completing her doctorate she joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Johannesburg (1 March 2018) when she was appointed as a post-doctoral researcher to the South African Research Chair for International Law until 30 June 2019. She was also employed as a post-doctoral researcher at the Palacký University in Olomouc, Faculty of Law, Department of International and European Law, Czech Republic between September 2018 and March 2019.

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Prof Bradley holds LLB, LLM (International Air, Space and Telecommunication Law) and LLD degrees from the  University of Pretoria. The title of her doctoral thesis is: An analysis of the notions of “organised armed groups” and “intensity” in the law of non-international armed conflict. Also, she has an LLM degree in Shipping Law from the University of Cape Town. During May 2019 Prof Bradley completed the 40th Advanced Course on International Humanitarian Law, the 50th Course for Directors of Courses and Trainers on IHL and the Peace Support Operations Course at the International Institute for International Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy. She holds certificates for attending the Summer School in Public International Law held by The Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague, The Netherlands in 2017 as well as the 2015 MACIL Summer School on Public International Law held at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.

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Prof Bradley’s general areas of specialization lie in public international law and international humanitarian law. After completing her doctorate in 2018, Dr Bradley increasingly focused her research on conflict classification and the law of non-international armed conflict. Her interests lie in the area of the practice of organised armed groups in Africa and in analysing the complexity that challenges classification as a result of the fragmentation of organised armed groups, low intensity armed conflict, as well as cross-border armed conflicts. She has published on the doctrine of command responsibility.