Martha 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.

Martha is responsible for the classification of armed conflicts under the IHL in Focus and WarWatch projects at the Geneva Academy.

Book Symposium “Identifying Non-International Armed Conflict”: When NIACs end: Support for Derejko’s functional approach 

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The Tadic formulation for the existence of a non-international armed conflict is two-fold. First, the notion of organisation, which requires the military wing of a non-state actor, which is party to a conflict, to meet the demand to display a minimum degree of organisation. Second, the notion of intensity, which asserts that the severity of the fighting between parties to the conflict must equate to protracted armed violence. Both …

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Book Symposium ‘Proxy Warfare’: Unlocking the practical and theoretical conundrum of proxy occupation through rebel groups: Insights from Eugénie Duss

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The notion of proxy occupation is not just a theoretical conundrum that concerns a select few classification experts looking to provoke an academic conversation about an under-explored idea. Yes, the topic is underexplored in the literature. No, it is not a mere intellectual puzzle with no practical need. To be honest, it was only when …

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