Key Works

 Books

• Ed., Conflict in the Caucasus:  Implications for International Order (Basingstoke:  Palgrave, 2010) [with J.A. Green].
• A Guide to International Law Careers (London: British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2009) [with A. Smit].
• 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).

Articles & Book Chapters

• "The Allied Bombing of German Cities during the Second World War from a Canadian Perspective" (2012) 14 Journal of the History of International Law 87 [with R. Nelson].
• "The Arctic Environment and International Humanitarian Law" (2011) 49 Canadian Yearbook of International Law 213 [with A. Barnes].
• "Beyond Provincialism: Canadian Law Societies and the Protection of Human Rights Abroad" (2011) 36 Queen's Law Journal 58 [with A. Barnes].
• "International Law:  Military Force and Armed Conflict" in G. Kassimeris, ed., Research Companion to Modern Warfare (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010) [with J.A. Green].
• War Law and Its Intersections" in D. Whetham, ed., Ethics, Law and Military Operations (Basingstroke:  Palgrave 2010).
• "Beyond Lawfare: Juridical Oversight of Western Militaries" (2009) 46 Alberta Law Review 885.
• "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.
• “Who Should Regulate the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline?” (2004) 16 Georgetown International Environmental Law Review 403.

Honours & Awards

• 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.