Curtis A. Bradley
Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and
Professor of Public Policy Studies
Curtis Bradley is the Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy Studies. He joined the Duke law faculty in 2005, after teaching at the University of Virginia and University of Colorado law schools. His courses include International Law, Foreign Relations Law, and Federal Courts. He is co-director of Duke Law School’s Center for International and Comparative Law and serves on the Executive Board of Duke's Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security.
Professor Bradley graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1988. He then clerked for Judge David Ebel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Byron White of the U.S. Supreme Court. After his clerkships, Professor Bradley practiced law for several years at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. He began teaching in 1995 at the University of Colorado School of Law, and he received tenure there in 1999. In 2000, he joined the faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law as a full professor. In 2004, he served as counselor on international law in the Legal Adviser's Office of the U.S. State Department. He is now a member of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Law. He is also a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law, as well as the International Law Association's Study Group on the Principles on the Application of International Law by Domestic Courts.
Professor Bradley has written numerous articles concerning both international law and U.S. foreign relations law, including articles published in the Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Duke, and Georgetown law journals. He is also the co-editor of Presidential Power Stories (Foundation Press 2008) (with Christopher H. Schroeder), and the co-author of two casebooks: Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (Aspen Press 4th ed. 2011) (with Jack Goldsmith), and Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (Foundation Press 7th ed. 2011) (with Peter Low and John Jeffries). He is currently working on a book concerning international law in the U.S. legal system, to be published by Oxford University Press.
