Expertise

Professor Waters' scholarly interests include the structure of the inter-state system, ethnic conflict, human rights, transitional justice, and comparative law, especially in European and Islamic contexts. His principal research involves re-defining self-determination to devise an effective right of peaceful secession. He has published extensively in leading journals of international law and international relations, including at Yale, Harvard, NYU, Virginia, and George Washington.

Areas of Expertise

  • International law

Expertise:

  • Eastern Europe
  • Law
  • Memory
  • Nationalism
Past Affiliations

Adjunct Faculty, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Director, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Russian and East European Institute, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Affiliate Faculty, Russian and East European Institute, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Affiliate Faculty, Islamic Studies Program, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Islamic Studies Program, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Center for the Study of Global Change, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
Law, European Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Russian
Degrees
JD, Harvard University, 1999
MIA, Columbia University, East Central Europe, 1998
BA, University of California, Los Angeles, English Literature and Mass Media, 1989