Tiyanjana Maluwa

Faculty Profile: Tiyanjana Maluwa

Director, Penn State’s School of International Affairs
Associate Dean for International Affairs and the H. Laddie Montague Chair in Law at Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law

Education:
Ph.D., Cambridge University
LL.M., University of Sheffield
LL.B., University of Malawi

Tiyanjana Maluwa is the associate dean for international affairs at Penn State's Dickinson School of Law and holds the H. Laddie Montague Chair in Law. He was recently appointed director of the newly established Penn State School of International Affairs. Recognized internationally for his extensive scholarly writings and expertise in public international law and human rights, he has been called upon to serve as a special expert and consultant to the United Nations, the African Union and other organizations. He previously worked as the first legal counsel of the African Union (previously the Organization of African Unity) at its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and, subsequently, as the legal advisor to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. Prior to joining the African Union and the United Nations, he was a Professor of International Law at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Extraordinary Professor of Law at the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has also taught and lectured at a number of other universities in Africa, Europe and the U.S. Dean Maluwa has written and edited books, contributed chapters to several books and is the author of numerous articles in academic journals and other publications. In 1997, he was asked by the United Nations to serve as the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Nigeria following the execution of the famed poet-activist Ken Saro Wiwa. He currently serves as a member of the International Jury for the Stockholm Prize in Criminology.

Contact Information:
Email: tum2@psu.edu
Phone: 814-865-8971

Selected Publications:
“The Move from Institutions? Examining the Phenomenon in Africa,” Proceedings of
the American Society of International Law, 2006.

“The Transition from the Organization of African Unity to the African Union,” African Yearbook of International Law, 2006.

“The Constitutive Act of the African Union and Institution-Building in Post-Colonial Africa,” Leiden Journal of International Law, 2002.

“Reimagining African Unity: Some Preliminary Reflections on the Constitutive Act of the African Union,” African Yearbook of International Law, 2002.

“Implementing the Principle of Gender Equality through the Law: Some Lessons from Southern Africa,” International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, 1999.

International Law in Post-Colonial Africa, Kluwer Law International, 1999.

Administrative Justice in Southern Africa, University of Capetown, 1997.

"Discourses on Democracy and Human Rights in Africa: Contextualizing the Relevance of Human Rights in Developing Countries," Journal of African Policy Studies, 1996.

“The Refugee Problem and the Quest for Peace and Security in Southern Africa,” International Refugee Law Journal, 1995.

“Succession to Treaties in Post-Independence Africa: A Retrospective Consideration of Some Theoretical and Practical Issues with special reference to Malawi,” African Journal of International and Comparative Law, 1992.

“The Peaceful Settlement of Disputes Among African States, 1963-1983: Some Conceptual Issues and Practical Trends,” International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 1989.