 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, a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, and an AB summa cum laude from Harvard College. Professor Sarfaty expands the focus of the Program’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, regulatory governance, organizational culture, and the role of lawyers. 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.
Professor Sarfaty's recent research, Values in Translation: Human Rights and the Culture of the World Bank, will be published as a book by Stanford University Press next spring.She is currently writing about the use of quantitative indicators in international law, based on a case study of global indicators for the regulation of corporate sustainability. Her future research 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, University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology (2011 )
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 (Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2012)
Why Culture Matters in International Institutions: The Marginality of Human Rights at the World Bank, 103 American Journal of International Law 647 (2009) read article
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, 2009) read chapter
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)
paper presented at:
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting,
June 2011
University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Law & Development Society Speaker Series, March 2011
American Society of International Law’s International Economic Law Conference, University of Minnesota Law School, November 2010.
paper presented at:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law, International Law Forum, June 2010
Temple Law School, International Law Colloquium, March 2010
University of Toronto Faculty of Law, International Human Rights Workshop, March 2010.
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology Colloquium, November 2009
McGill University, Department of Anthropology Speaker Series, November 2009
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