William Bradford (professor)

William C. Bradford is an MBA student at the University of Florida. He is also a former professor of law.

Education

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 U.N. for the Miami Tribe of Indians of Indiana.

His 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", 1995 (AAT 9537394)

Teaching at Indiana University

Bradford joined the faculty of Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis 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 an adviser to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Shalikashvili.Fact|date=May 2008 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 twenty law review articles on international law, the laws of war, and federal Indian law. [cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20051103000457/http://indylaw.indiana.edu/people/publications.cfm?Id=126|title=William C. Bradford: Publications|publisher=Indiana University School of Law|date=2005-11-03|accessdate=2007-03-27] 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. [cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,105952,00.html|title=Big Story with John Gibson segment lineup|publisher=Fox News|accessdate=2007-02-07] He was named a Dean's Fellow in recognition of scholarly excellence in both 2004-2005 and 2005-2006,cite news|url=http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19081|title=Indian Hunt In Indiana|work=FrontPage magazine.com|date=2005-08-10|accessdate=2007-03-27] and was voted Best New Professor by Indiana Law students in 2005.Fact|date=March 2007

Before resigning from Indiana University (see below), he was one of fewer than fifteen tenured or tenure-track academic legal faculty members of American Indian origin in the U.S.

Tenure controversy

In 2005 Bradford accused Professor Florence Roisman of opposing his tenure because of some of his conservative views. [cite news|url=http://www.indylawnet.com/2005/06/bradford-clarifies.html|title=Bradford Clarifies|publisher=IndyLaw.net|date=2005-06-27|accessdate=2007-03-27] The official reason given was that Prof. Bradford was "uncollegial." The feud became a national one when Fox News and "FrontPage magazine.com", among others, continually reported on the controversy. [cite news | url = http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,161161,00.html | title = 'Un-Collegial?' | date = June 29, 2005 | author = John Gibson | work = FOX News | accessdate = 2008-05-31] [cite news|url=http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19109|title=Double Standards at Indiana Law: William Bradford and Robin Kundis Craig|work=FrontPage magazine.com|date=2005-08-12|accessdate=2008-05-31] [cite news|url=http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19330|title=Bill Bradford and the Indian Hunt at Indianapolis Law, Continued.|work=FrontPage magazine.com|date=2005-08-31|accessdate=2007-03-27] Bradford claimed that his support of the Iraq War and his refusal to sign a letter in defense of Ward Churchill were contributing factors. "The presumption was that I've got to sign this thing because I'm an Indian, but I can't do that," he said. [cite news
last = Jaschik
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title = Not the Right Kind of Indian
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accessdate = 2007-03-23 ] Roisman has denied most of Bradford's claims [cite web | url = http://www.indylawnet.com/2005_06_01_iuilaw_archive.html | author = Lucas Sayre | work = IndyLaw Net | date = June 30, 2005 | title = Bradford tenure story goes national | accessdate = 2007-02-08 ] and school administrators pointed out that Bradford never actually applied for tenure and as such no vote to approve or deny tenure to Bradford was held. Instead there was simply a non-binding straw poll to determine his colleagues' opinions as to whether he would receive tenure were he to apply. The vote was 10-5 in favor, [cite web|url=http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/archive/2005/August/IUPUIBradfordIndianHuntinIN081005.htm|title=Indian Hunt in Indiana|publisher=FrontPage magazine.com|date=2005-08-10|accessdate=2007-03-27] which meant that five professors believed that Mr. Bradford had a low probability of receiving tenure. He did not get the unanimous votes his tenured colleagues typically received. Although unanimity is not required for a faculty to award tenure, such a significant dissent might have been seen as a sign that the faculty was unsure of Bradford's fitness. However, it should be noted that not every faculty member voted in the straw poll and that, had Bradford gone through the normal tenure review process, he might have won over some of his critics.

Resignation

On December 2, 2005, Susanah Mead, interim dean of the law school, released the following statement: "Professor William Bradford has resigned his position as associate professor at the IU School of Law – Indianapolis effective January 1, 2006 to pursue other employment opportunities and interests." [cite news|first=Jennifer|last=Jacobson|coauthors=Smallwood, Scott|url=http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i17/17a00702.htm|title=Citing Bias, Law Professor Leaves Post at IUPUI|work=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=2005-12-16|accessdate=2007-03-27]

Future after Indiana

In the fall of 2005 Bradford served as a visiting professor at the College of William and Mary;cite web|url=http://www.wm.edu/law/alumni/enews/2005faculty.shtml|title=2005 New and Visiting Faculty|publisher=William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law|accessdate=2007-03-27] at this time his profile said he was an Associate Judge Pro Tempore, Court of Appeals, for the Fort Sill Apache Nation. He then considered joining the visiting faculty of Victoria University of Wellington School of Law in New Zealand in Spring 2006.

William Bradford is currently seeking his MBA at the Warrington School of Business at the University of Florida. [cite web|url=http://www.cba.ufl.edu/docs/deansreport.pdf#page=17|title=Warrington College of Business 2006 Dean's Report|pages="pp. 17-18"|publisher=University of Florida|accessdate=2007-03-27]

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