School of Law

Anthony Bradney graduated with an LLB from the University of Hull. He then completed a BA at the Open University. Between 1977 and 2004 he was lecturer in law, senior lecturer in law and then Professor of Law at the University of Leicester. Between 2004 and 2006 he was Professor of Law at the University of Sheffield. In 2006 he was appointed Professor of Law at Keele University.

Anthony Bradney’s research interests lie mainly in the fields of law and religion, legal pluralism, law and popular culture, law and literature, university legal education and judicial studies.

Undergraduate teaching:

Legal Systems, Legal Skills and Jurisprudence

Postgraduate teaching:

Seminars on the MRes Social Science Research in Law and the LLM Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights courses.

Anthony Bradney is willing to supervise students in the areas of of law and religion, legal pluralism, law and popular culture, law and literature, university legal education and judicial studies.

Anthony Bradney is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.  He is the Honorary Memberships Secretary of the Society of Legal Scholars as well as being a member of the Society’s Library Committee and its Legal Education Committee.  He is also a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of the Journal of Law and Society and a Board Member of the Research Group on the Legal Professions (International Sociological Association).  He is a member of the Legal Education Research Network and the Law and Religion Scholars Network.  He was previously Membership Secretary and also Vice-Chair of the Socio-Legal Studies Association, a Vice-President of the Association of Legal and Social Philosophy and a Special Advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on Religious Offences and was a member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Legal Scholars between 1997 and 2011.  Between 2005 and 2012 he was editor of the Web Journal of the Current Legal Issues.