Awards

Titled Professor - 2023

Richard S Melvin Professor of Law

Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers - 2011

About Timothy Waters

Timothy William Waters writes and teaches on the laws of war, international criminal law, secession, and changes in states’ borders.

He is the author of Boxing Pandora: Rethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World (Yale 2020) and editor of The Milošević Trial: An Autopsy (Oxford 2013). He is a frequent contributor to policy debate on international law and politics. He has published extensively in leading journals of international law and international relations, including at Yale, Harvard, NYU, Virginia, Duke, Stanford, and George Washington. His op-eds on Iraq, Ukraine, the Balkans, and international justice, as well as gun rights and public discourse in America, have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Völkerrechtsblog, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The Atlantic.

A graduate of UCLA, Columbia, and Harvard, he has held fellowships at Harvard Law School, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and visited at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Beside teaching at Indiana, he has visited at Boston University, the University of Mississippi, Bard College, and Central European University in Budapest.

Prior to becoming an academic, Waters worked as a consultant on legal system reform for the Open Society Institute, and on ethnic discrimination for Human Rights Watch; as a researcher at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; as a human rights officer in Bosnia for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; and as a Peace Corps volunteer in Hungary where he helped open a high school for Roma/Gypsies and founded a nationwide English-language drama festival.