Professor Daniel Bradlow is the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) Professor of International Development Law and African Economic Relations. The chair is based at the the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights. Prof Bradlow is an emeritus professor at the American University Washington College of Law.

He is responsible for the internationally renowned LLM (Master’s of Law) programme in International Trade and Investment Law in Africa at the Centre for Human Rights.

Prof Bradlow previously held the following positions: Head of the South African Reserve Bank’s International Economic Relations and Policy Department; Chair of the Roster of Experts for the Independent Review Mechanism of the African Development Bank; and Director of the International Legal Studies Program at the American University Washington College of Law. Prof Bradlow is also a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).

In terms of recent publications, he co-edited the books Advocating Social Change Through International Law: Exploring the Choice Between Hard and Soft International Law (Brill, 2019) and Values, Interests and Power: South African Foreign Policy in Uncertain Times (PULP, 2020).

Prof Bradlow is working on projects related to African sovereign debt. He is also working on a book about international law and international financial institutions, as well as on the next editions of his co-authored textbooks on international law and negotiating international business transactions.