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Faculty of Law

Bradley Bryan

Bradley Bryan

Associate Professor

Accepting graduate students

Contact:
250-721-8164
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Credentials:
BA Hons (UBC), MA (McGill), LL.B (UVic), PhD (UC Berkeley), LL.M (Allard Hall).
Area of expertise:
Taxation law, Indigenous taxation, Indigenous corporate structures, legal theories engaging postcolonial and critical race theory
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Biography

Dr. Bradley Bryan (he / him) joined the Faculty of Law at the 樱花影视 in 2017, after practicing tax law with Woodward and Company Lawyers LLP where he advised Indigenous governments and organizations on a variety of tax, financing, and corporate structuring matters. Prof. Bryan teaches and carries out research in the colonial force of contemporary business and tax law. He works with postcolonial and critical race theories to explore the limits and promises of Indigenous fiscal relations, specifically where colonial economic and legal orders intersect with the legal practices of Indigenous peoples. He holds degrees from UBC and McGill University, completing his law degree here at the 樱花影视, a PhD at UC Berkeley, and an LLM in Taxation from Allard Hall School of Law.  Prof. Bryan’s research can be found in the .

Education

  • BA (Hons) - UBC (1992)
  • MA - McGill (1995)
  • LLB - UVic (1998)
  • PhD - UC Berkeley (2006)
  • LLM (Taxation) - Allard Hall (2015)

Selected publications

  • “First Nation Business Structures” in Business Organizations: Practice, Theory and Emerging Practices, eds. R. Yalden et al. (Toronto:  Emond, 2025) (co-authored with Frankie Young)

  • “Hybridity and Precarious Personhood: Limited Partnerships, First Nations, and Indigenous Economic Development” (2024) 46:7 Man LJ 81

  • “The Person and the Mirror:  On the Colonial Force of Corporate Law” (2023) 38:2 Can J of Law & Soc 139

  • “: Demythologizing the Indian Act Exemption”, The Conversation (August 23, 2022) (coauthored with Iain Thomas)

  • “Indigenous Peoples, Legal Bodies, and Personhood: Navigating the 'Public Body' Exemption with Private Law Hybrid Entities” (2020) 6 Can J of Comp & Cont Law 58

  • “Indigenous Taxation” in A. Cockfield et al (eds.) Materials on Canadian Income Tax (16th ed.) (Toronto: Carswell, 2020)

  • “Legality Against Orality” (2013) 9:2 Law, Culture, & the Humanities 261

  • “Property as Ontology:  On Aboriginal and English Conceptions of Ownership” (2000) 13 Can J of Law & Juris 3

Courses

Graduate supervision

Prof. Bryan is interested in supervising LLM and PhD students in three main areas: (i) on postcolonial approaches to Indigenous taxation and / or fiscal relations, Indigenous business structures, (ii) transsystemic approaches to taxation and private business law, and (iii) approaches to taxation and business law that engage critical approaches (i.e. critical race theory, Law & Political Economy, and contemporary political theory).