University of Wisconsin Law School Visiting Professor Yash Ghai has been appointed United Nations Special Representative on Human Rights in Cambodia.  U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan announced the appointment on November 1, 2005.

Ghai, a distinguished professor and renowned constitutional lawyer, is Sir YK Pao Professor of Public Law at the University of Hong Kong, where he teaches human rights and public law.  He has been Visiting Knowles Professor at the UW Law School during the Fall 2005 semester.

 “This is a major international honor,” comments UW Law Professor Heinz Klug , director of the Global Legal Studies Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  “We are very pleased that our visiting professor has been accorded this well-deserved recognition.”

The position of the Special Representative was established in 1993 by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.  Ghai’s appointment follows the resignation of his predecessor, Peter Leuprecht, who served in the post from 2001 to 2005.

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