Bradley Bryan

Bradley Bryan is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. He holds advanced degrees including a PhD from UC Berkeley and an LL.M in Taxation from UBC's Allard Hall. His legal career includes practice with First Nations taxation and corporate structuring, alongside roles as a law clerk at the BC Court of Appeal and with Ecojustice. Research focuses on Indigenous legal systems, taxation law, and postcolonial legal theory. His work interrogates intersections between Indigenous economic development, corporate law frameworks, and colonial legal structures. Key publications explore legal hybridity, Indigenous personhood, and colonial legal systems. He is affiliated with the National Centre for Indigenous Laws, set to open in 2025.

Education:

• BA (Hons) - University of British Columbia (1992)
• MA - McGill University (1995)
• LLB - University of Victoria (1998)
• PhD - UC Berkeley (2006)
• LLM (Taxation) - Allard Hall, UBC (2014)

Research Interests: Bryan’s work bridges Indigenous economic autonomy and legal systems with modern corporate frameworks, examining taxation, property ontology, and postcolonial legal theory. His scholarship critiques colonial legal systems’ impacts on Indigenous sovereignty, particularly through analyses of hybrid legal entities and oral tradition documentation.

Professional Contributions: Maintains active engagement with First Nations legal advising and contributes to law reform through publications in Materials on Canadian Income Tax and Business Organizations: Practice, Theory and Emerging Challenges. His Orcid profile and UVic digital repository document extensive legal scholarship.