INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law professor Carlton Waterhouse has been appointed to the Indiana Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
Waterhouse teaches property, environmental law, race and law, and environmental justice at the McKinney School of Law, located on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus. He is nationally recognized for his work on environmental justice and is known internationally for his research and writing on reparations for historic injustices and state human rights violations.
He will serve a two-year term on the state advisory committee for the commission that develops national civil rights policy and enhances the enforcement of federal civil rights law.
“It comes as no surprise to me that professor Waterhouse would be sought out to serve on this important committee,” IU McKinney School of Law Dean Andy Klein said. “With his extraordinary level of expertise, he will do an exemplary job advising the commission.”
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is an eight-member independent, bipartisan federal agency that studies allegations of voter disenfranchisement and discrimination. Fifty-one state advisory committees, one for each state and the District of Columbia, assist the commission with its functions. State committees are composed of citizen volunteers familiar with local and state civil rights issues who are appointed by vote of the U.S. commission members.
“The opportunity to serve Indiana and the country as an advisor to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission is a great honor, since civil rights protection is such an important part of my work,” Waterhouse said. “It shaped my legal practice before I entered the academy and is a critical part of my teaching and research today.”
Waterhouse’s views have been published in The Wall Street Journal online and in prestigious law journals including the Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, the Fordham Environmental Law Review and the Rutgers Law Review.
He joined the McKinney faculty in the fall of 2010. Waterhouse earned his law degree at Howard University School of Law and holds a master’s degree and a doctorate from Emory University.
