Carlisle, PA (January 2004) — Tiyanjana Maluwa has served for the past two years as Legal Advisor to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland, having been appointed to that position by the Secretary General during the tenure of Mary Robinson, the immediate past High Commissioner and former President of Ireland. Previously, he was the first Legal Counsel to the Organization of African Unity (now the African Union), a Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and an Extraordinary Professor of Law at the University of Pretoria Centre for Human Rights. An internationally acclaimed scholar of human rights and public international law, Professor Maluwa is the author or editor of five books and more than fifty scholarly articles. In 1995, 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. Maluwa joins Penn State Dickinson as The H. Laddie and Linda P. Montague Professor of Law.