The University of Mississippi
School of Law
P.O. Box 1848
Lamar Law Center, RM 543
University, MS 38677
Phone: (662) 915-6843
E-mail: waters@olemiss.edu
Publications
Ius Gentium as the Basis for a Modern Minority Rights Regime , in Theoretical Foundations of Human Rights Third Conference Papers ( Mofid Univ. , forthcoming ).
Democracy in the Shape of the State , in Dina Haynes, ed., Deconstructing the Reconstruction of Post-Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Univ. of Penn. Press , forthcoming ).
Migrating towards minority status: shifting European policy towards Roma , __ Journal of Common Market Studies __ ( forthcoming 2005)(co-author).
Reconsidering Dhimmah as a Model for Regulating Minorities, with Some Notes on the Implications for Human Rights , in M. Habibi Modjandeh, ed., Theoretical Foundations of Human Rights (Brill, forthcoming 2005).
Contemplating Failure and Creating Alternatives in the Balkans: Bosnia's Peoples, Democracy and the Shape of Self-Determination , 29 Yale Journal of International Law 423 (2004).
Unexploded Bomb: Voice, Silence, and Consequence at the Hague Tribunals: A Legal and Rhetorical Critique , 35 N.Y.U. Journal of International Law and Politics 1015 (2003).
Monitoring the EU Accession Process: Judicial Capacity (Open Soc. Inst., 2002)(co-editor).
Monitoring the EU Accession Process: Judicial Independence (Open Soc. Inst., 2001)(co-editor).
Indeterminate Claims: New Challenges to Self-Determination Doctrine in Yugoslavia , 20 SAIS Review 111 (2000); conference version in Serbian by Agency for Local Democracy ( Subotica , 2001).
The Naked Land: The Dayton Accords, Property Disputes, and Bosnia's Real Constitution , 40 Harvard International Law Journal 517 (1999). Won the International Law Students Association's Francis Deak Award for Best Student Article in a Student-Edited Law Journal 2000.
Return from Exile, Return to Politics: Leadership, Political Mobilization and National Identity among the Crimean Tatars , 44 The Ukrainian Review 42 (1997).
Rights Denied: Violations against the Rights of Hungarian Roma (Human Rights Watch, 1996); Jogfosztottan: Romák Magyarországon (Magyar Helsinki Bizottság, 1996)(co-author).
"Two Souls to Struggle with:" The Failing Implementation of Hungary's New Minorities Law and Discrimination against Gypsies , 9 Harvard Human Rights Journal 297 (1996); and in John Micgiel, ed., State and Nation Building in East Central Europe (1996)(co-author). Won the Columbia University Gitelson-Meyerowitz Award for Human Rights Writing 1995.
Kings without Countries: Problems in the Formation of a Gypsy National Identity , 6 Journal of Public and International Affairs 24 (APSIA/Princeton)(1995). |
TIMOTHY WILLIAM WATERS
Visiting Professor of Law
Timothy William Waters joins the faculty as a visitor this year. Most recently he was Visiting Scholar and Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School , with appointments in the East Asian Legal Studies Program, the Human Rights Program, and the Reginald F. Lewis Fellowship for Law Teaching. He has also held visitorships at Boston University School of Law and Central European University in Budapest .
Professor Waters received his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School , his Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University 's School of International and Public Affairs, and his B.A. magna cum laude in English literature and media from UCLA. He has also studied at the University of Lund in Sweden and Bogazici University in Turkey .
Professor Waters' scholarly interests include public international law, human rights, transitional justice, ethnic conflict, comparative law, Europe , and Islamic law. His principal research agenda involves a proposal to ameliorate inter-group conflict by defining a right and process to allow peaceful secession from existing countries. He has published extensively in leading journals of international law, including Yale, Harvard, and N.Y.U., as well as political science and area studies journals, and has lectured at law schools, universities and institutes in the United States , Europe , and Iran .
In addition to his scholarship, Professor Waters has worked in a number of professional contexts. He has served as a consultant on legal system reform for the Open Society Institute, UNDP, and the Latvian Ministry of Justice, as well as on discrimination against minorities for Human Rights Watch. He has worked in Bosnia for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and as a researcher in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Hungary for three years.
During the Fall term Professor Waters is teaching Legal Professions and Comparative Law. In the Spring term he will teach International Criminal Law and International Human Rights Law.
Office hours: Tuesdays 1-3, drop-ins welcome at any time, or by appointment
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