 Research Fellow
Program on the Legal Profession
Harvard Law School
23 Everett Street #G-24
Cambridge, MA 02138
Galit A. Sarfaty is a Research Fellow at the Center. She holds a JD from Yale Law School and an AB summa cum laude from Harvard College. She is completing her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Chicago and plans to defend this fall. Ms. Sarfaty expands the focus of the Center’s work by bringing an international and human rights dimension to its research agenda. Her scholarship offers an anthropological perspective to the study of international law and institutions. It uses ethnographic methods to understand the internal dynamics of organizations, the role of lawyers within them, and the diffusion of human rights norms. Her writing is informed by her work experience in a number of organizations, including the World Bank, the International Labor Organization, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
During her tenure as a Research Fellow, Ms. Sarfaty will be writing up her dissertation research on human rights and the organizational culture of the World Bank, based on fieldwork conducted at the institution over a four year period. She is also beginning a new project that empirically studies the incorporation of human rights norms into business decision-making. These research projects fit within the Program’s goals of examining the global transformation of the legal profession and the ethical problems confronting it.
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PhD candidate, University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology (expected 2009)
JD, Yale Law School, 2005
MA, University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology, 2001
AB in Anthropology, Harvard College, 2000
Why Culture Matters in International Institutions: The Marginality of Human Rights at the World Bank, Am. J. Int'l L. (forthcoming 2009)
International Norm Diffusion in the Pimicikamak Cree Nation: A Model of Legal Mediation, 48 Harvard International Law Journal (2007) read article
Measuring Justice: Internal Conflict over the World Bank’s Empirical Approach to Human Rights, in MIRRORS OF JUSTICE: LAW AND POWER IN THE POST-COLD WAR ERA (Kamari Clarke & Mark Goodale eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, forthcoming 2009)
Doing Good Business or Just Doing Good: Competing Human Rights Frameworks at the World Bank, in THE INTERSECTION OF RIGHTS AND REGULATION: NEW DIRECTIONS IN SOCIOLEGAL SCHOLARSHIP (Bronwen Morgan ed., Ashgate Press, 2007)
Why Culture Matters in International Institutions: The Marginality of Human Rights at the World Bank, Leadership and Corporate Accountability Workship, Harvard Business School (12/08)
Why Culture Matters in International Institutions: The Marginality of Human Rights at the World Bank, Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Cornell Law School (9/08)
Sociolegal Methods in International, University of Pittsburgh School of Law (7/08)
Why Culture Matters in International Institutions: The Marginality of Human Rights at the World Bank, Conference on "After Empire: Global Governance Today," Brown University (6/08)
Why Culture Matters in International Institutions: The Marginality of Human Rights at the World Bank, Visiting Scholars Luncheon, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (5/08)
The Migration of Human Rights Norms from the Private Sector to the Public Sector, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting,
Montreal (5/08)
Why Culture Matters in International Institutions: The Marginality of Human Rights at the World Bank,
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting,
Montreal (5/08)
Why Culture Matters in International Institutions: The Marginality of Human Rights at the World Bank, chosen in competition for presentation in a New Voices in International Law panel,American Society of International Law Annual Meeting,
Washington, DC, (4/08)
International Norm Diffusion in the Pimicikamak Cree Nation: A Model of Legal Mediation, invited speaker at conference on “The Individual and Customary International Law Formation,”
Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, (4/08)
Why Culture Matters in International Institutions: The Marginality of Human Rights at the World Bank, Harvard Law School, (3/08)
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