Professor Sarfaty holds a JD from Yale Law School, an MA and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago and an AB summa cum laude from Harvard University.

As a legal scholar and anthropologist, Professor Sarfaty analyzes the ways in which law and legal institutions operate in practice, including the transnational regulation of corporate human rights compliance in global supply chains, the role of corporate actors in international lawmaking, the culture of international organizations, and the use of quantitative regulatory tools in global economic governance and human rights. Her research has been published in a book entitled, "Values in Translation: Human Rights and the Culture of the World Bank " (Stanford University Press), as well as several leading law journals including the American Journal of International Law, Harvard International Law Journal, Law and Social Inquiry, Stanford Journal of International Law, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, University of Toronto Law Journal, and Virginia Journal of International Law.

Professor Sarfaty previously served as Canada Research Chair in Global Economic Governance and Associate Professor at the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia, as well as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to these positions, Professor Sarfaty was a Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on the Legal Profession and Human Rights Program, a Graduate Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Ethics, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.