Christopher Waters, Associate Dean and Professor

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 University of Windsor Students' Law Society Faculty Award for teaching and a University Special Recognition Award for Excellence in Research.

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