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Timothy W. Waters

Associate Professor of Law

Office: 311B
Phone: (812)856-2748
E-mail: tiwaters@indiana.edu

B.A. magna cum laude, 1989, UCLA; M.I.A., 1998, Columbia University; J.D. cum laude, 1999, Harvard Law School. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, 1999-2000. Visiting Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Harvard Law School, 2002-2005. Visiting Professor, Central European University, 2002. Visiting Professor, Boston University School of Law, 2004. Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi School of Law, 2005-2006. Visiting Professor of Political Studies, Bard College, 2006. Member, Phi Beta Kappa.

Timothy William Waters joins the faculty in Fall 2007. Professor Waters' scholarly interests include public international law, transitional justice and international criminal law, ethnic conflict, human rights, and comparative law, especially in European and Islamic contexts. His principal research involves efforts to re-conceptualize self-determination to devise an effective right of peaceful secession from existing countries. He has published extensively in leading journals of international law, including Yale, Harvard, N.Y.U., and Virginia, as well as political science and area studies.

Professor Waters is a frequent contributor to policy debate on international law and politics. His op-eds on Iraq, the Balkans, and international justice have appeared in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and Christian Science Monitor. He has presented his work at universities, government bodies and institutes in the U.S., Europe, Iran, and Israel.

Waters has also been active in professional contexts. He has served as a consultant on legal system reform for the Open Society Institute, UNDP, and the Latvian Ministry of Justice, and on discrimination for Human Rights Watch. He monitored implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, he helped draft the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Hungary, where he first developed his interest in European issues and regulation of minority-majority conflict.

Professor Waters returned to Harvard Law School to conduct research on law and ethnic conflict. At Harvard he was a Human Rights Program Visiting Fellow (2002), the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow for Law Teaching (2003), and a Visiting Scholar in the East Asian Legal Studies Program (2005). At Columbia, he focused on East Central Europe, receiving an advanced certificate in area studies from the Harriman Institute. He has also studied at the University of Lund in Sweden and Bogazici University in Turkey.

You can view Professor Waters' research at the Social Science Research Network. Abstracts of Waters' articles and op-eds are also available.

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Fall 2008 - 2009