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Tiyanjana Maluwa

  • H. Laddie Montague Chair in Law
  • Professor of Law
  • University Park
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Education

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

Biography

Tiyanjana Maluwa is the H. Laddie Montague Chair in Law and Professor of Law and International Affairs. He is also a Director Emeritus of the Penn State School of International Affairs, which he led as the inaugural director from 2007 to 2015. He previously worked as the Legal Counsel of the Organization of African Unity/African Union and, subsequently, as the Legal Adviser to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Prior to joining the African Union, he was Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town and Extraordinary Professor of Law at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has also taught in full-time and visiting capacities at other universities in Africa and North America and spent a year as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany. More recently, in 2017, he was a Visiting Senior Fellow at Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe (KFG) and a member of the KFG “International Rule of Law” research team at Humboldt University, Berlin. He became a member of the Institut de Droit International in 2021.