MSU hosting international law expert Waters for upcoming Lamar Conerly Governance Lecture Series
Contact: Carl Smith
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擜n international law expert who previously worked in a variety of human rights-related roles throughout Europe is the featured speaker for this year鈥檚 花秀直播 State Lamar Conerly Governance Lecture Series.
Timothy William Waters, the Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law and associate director of Indiana University鈥檚 Center for Constitutional Democracy, will present 鈥淒oing What We Can: International Law鈥檚 Failing Grotian Order鈥 at 11 a.m., March 22 in Allen Hall鈥檚 Room 13. The free event is organized by the MSU Department of Political Science and Public Administration.
A graduate of UCLA, Columbia and Harvard Law School, Waters鈥 work focuses on the laws of war, international criminal law, secession and changes in states鈥 borders. He is the author of聽鈥淏oxing Pandora: Rethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World鈥澛(Yale, 2020) and editor of聽鈥淭he Milo拧evi膰 Trial: An Autopsy鈥澛(Oxford, 2013).
Waters 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, and his writings on Iraq, Ukraine, the Balkans and international justice, as well as gun rights and public discourse in America, have appeared in The聽New York Times,聽Washington Post,聽Los Angeles Times,聽V枚lkerrechtsblog,聽Christian Science Monitor,聽Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy聽补苍诲听The Atlantic.
Before his stint in academia, Waters worked as a consultant on legal system reform for the Open Society Institute and on ethnic discrimination for Human Rights Watch, researcher at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, human rights officer in Bosnia for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and Peace Corps volunteer in Hungary.
The lecture is part of a series made possible by major support from Lamar Conerly, a 1971 MSU accounting/pre-law graduate and longtime partner in the Destin, Florida, law firm of Conerly, Bowman and Dykes LLP. Conerly is a former national MSU Alumni Association president and College of Business Alumni Fellow.
Due to Conerly鈥檚 generosity, the Governance Lecture Series is a free event open to students, faculty, staff, alumni and the general public.
For more information on Waters lecture, contact Quintara Miller, PSPA business coordinator, at 662-325-2711 or聽qmiller@pspa.msstate.edu.
The Department of Political Science and Public Administration is part of MSU鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences. Visit聽 补苍诲听 to learn more about the college and department, respectively.
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