Martha M. Bradley

Professor Martha M. Bradley holds an LLB (Bachelors of Law), LLM (Masters of Law in Air, Space and Telecommunications Law), LLD (Doctors of Law) from University of Pretoria and an LLM (Masters of Shipping Law) from the University of Cape Town. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Law at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and an associated researcher with the NRF South African Research Chair in International Law.

Martha teaches in the Advanced IHL Course at the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo. She serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law and has been a Land Steiermark Fellow at the University of Graz (2023) and a Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study Iso Lomso Fellow (from 2026). She is also an alumni of the South African Government’s Future Professors Program, Phase 2 Cohort 1. She previously served as an external expert on the Common African Position on international law and cyberspace.

Professor Bradley is responsible for the classification of armed conflicts under the IHL in Focus Project.