Christopher Waters joined the Faculty in July 2007 and was appointed Associate Dean in July 2009. His previous academic post was at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom and in the 2006-2007 academic year he was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Changing Character of War Programme at Oxford University.

Dr. Waters' research interests are in the areas of public international law, the law of armed conflict, military law, post-conflict reconstruction, law and politics of Eastern Europe and legal professions. He has extensive field experience in the Caucasus and Balkans, including with the UN/OSCE's Kosovo Mission in 1999-2000, and has been interviewed on Eastern European issues by domestic and international media including CTV, National Public Radio, The New York Times and Agence France Presse. On several occasions he has been deployed by Canada as a monitor for elections in Eastern Europe and has frequently addressed military audiences in Canada and the UK on law of armed conflict issues.

In 2009 Dr. Waters received the Windsor Student Law Society Faculty Award for teaching and a University Special Recognition Award for Excellence in Research.

Key Works

Books

• Ed., British and Canadian Perspectives on International Law (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2006).
• Ed., The State of Law in the South Caucasus (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005).
• Counsel in the Caucasus: Professionalization and Law in Georgia (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2004).

• "Beyond Lawfare: Juridical Oversight of Western Militaries" (2009) 46 Alberta Law Review 885.
• "The Legalization of the Georgia-Russia Conflict of 2008” (2009) 3 Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law 351.
• "Beyond treaty signing: internalizing human rights in Central Eurasia" in C. Stefes & A. Wooden, eds., The Politics of Transition in Central Asia and the Caucasus (New York: Routledge, 2009).
• “Is the Military Legally Encircled?” (2008) 8 Defence Studies 26.
• “International Humanitarian Law and Three Block Wars” in S.J. Meharg, ed., Helping Hands and Loaded Arms: Navigating the Military and Humanitarian Space (Clemensport, N.S.: The Canadian Peacekeeping Press, 2007).
• “Legal Education After War” (2007) 101 American Journal of International Law 382.
• “Nationalizing Kosovo’s Ombudsperson” (2007) 12 Journal of Conflict and Security Law 139.
• “Market Control and Lawyers in the Former Soviet Union” (2007) 8 Journal of Law in Society 1.
• “Law in Places that Don’t Exist” (2006) 34 Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 401.
• “Post-Conflict Legal Education” (2005) 10 Journal of Conflict and Security Law 101.
• “Who Should Regulate the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline?” (2004) 16 Georgetown International Environmental Law Review 403.

• Dr. Waters holds the Canadian Peacekeeping Service Medal.
• He has been awarded research grants from the British Academy, the Socio-Legal Studies Association (UK) and the Leverhulme Foundation.
• His 2004 book, Counsel in the Caucasus won the Hart/SLSA book prize for early career academics