| Dr. William Bradford | |
|---|---|
| Born | Lansing, Michigan |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University University of Miami University of Florida |
| Occupation | Writer Professor Attorney |
| Spouse | Amy Bradford |
William C. Bradford is an American writer, professor, and legal scholar. He is a Chiricahua Apache Indian and served as Ambassador to the United States for the Miami Tribe of Indians of Indiana.
He is a former Professor at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, and recently completed a Masters in Business Administration at the Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida. He has also served as counsel to the Miami Tribe of Indians of Indiana.
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Bradford graduated summa cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law, where he served as project editor of the University of Miami Law Review and was a member of the Order of the Coif. He also received an LL.M. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He is Chiricahua Apache Indian and served as Ambassador to the United States for the Miami Tribe of Indians of Indiana.
His 1995 doctoral thesis was "United States foreign policy decision-making in Arab-Israeli crises: The association of United States presidential personality constructs with political and military crisis outcomes" (AAT 9537394)
Bradford joined the faculty of Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in the fall of 2002 after serving in the Army Reserve. He also served at the War Gaming and Simulation Center, National Defense University, Fort McNair, Virginia, and was a "self-proclaimed" adviser to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Shalikashvili. At Indiana University, he specialized in teaching international law, federal Indian law, property, national security/foreign relations law, and the laws of armed conflict.
Bradford has authored at least 20 law review articles on international law, the laws of war, and federal Indian law.[1] One of his more recent articles was published in the Notre Dame Law Review, v. 79, (2004), titled, "The Duty to Defend Them: A Natural Legal Justification of the Bush Doctrine of Preventative War". He is also a frequent commentator in local and national media on laws of war issues regarding Iraq and the War on Terror. For instance, on December 16, 2003, he was the top guest on The Big Story With John Gibson, commenting on the tactics interrogators were likely to use on the just-captured Saddam Hussein.[2][3] He was named a Dean's Fellow in recognition of scholarly excellence in both 2004-2005 and 2005–2006,[2] and was voted Best New Professor by Indiana Law students in 2005.
Bradford resigned from Indiana University in 2005[4] following a dispute over tenure.
In 2005 Bradford applied for tenure, but faced opposition from some faculty members following a non-binding straw poll that indicated the five out of 15 polled faculty members did not believe Bradford was likely to be awarded his request for tenure. Bradford claimed that the opposition was based on his conservative views, including his support of the Iraq war and his refusal to support Ward Churchill.[5] University officials countered that Bradford was "uncollegial." Multiple news outlets reported on the story in the wake of the Ward Curchill scandal.[6][7][8][9]
In the fall of 2005 Bradford served as a visiting professor at The College of William & Mary;[10] at this time his profile said he was an Associate Judge Pro Tempore, Court of Appeals, for the Fort Sill Apache Nation.[10] He then considered joining the visiting faculty of Victoria University of Wellington School of Law in New Zealand in Spring 2006.
William Bradford holds an MBA from the Warrington College of Business, the business school of the University of Florida.[11] He is also currently a professor at the United States Coast Guard Academy.[12]