 PLP Affiliated Faculty;
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
3730 Walnut Street, 650 Huntsman Hall
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6340
Tel: (215) 573-4864
Email: gsarfaty@wharton.upenn.edu
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Galit A. Sarfaty is an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a JD from Yale Law School and an AB summa cum laude from Harvard College. She is also completing her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Ms. Sarfaty expands the focus of the Center’s work by bringing an international and ethical 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.
Ms. Sarfaty is currently 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. Her future research projects will continue to 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
VALUES IN TRANSLATION: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE CULTURE OF THE WORLD BANK (book manuscript under advance contract. Stanford University Press)
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)
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