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Yasmine Ergas
International Affairs Building, 13th Floor
Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-0016
ye36@columbia.edu
Biography:
Yasmine Ergas is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of International and Public Affairs. A practicing lawyer and social scientist, Ergas is currently engaged in the Millenium Villages Project, acts as a consultant to private corporations and is active in several nonprofit organizations. Her research interests focus on international law and domestic public policy, the redefinition of national sovereignty and the intersections of corporate law, international law and human rights.
A former member of the School of Social Science of the Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, Ergas has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation and the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and has been a research associate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and the Pembroke Center at Brown University. She has served as a consultant to international organizations including the OECD, WHO and UNESCO. From 1985 to 1991, Ergas was on the staff of the Social Science Research Council where, among other responsibilities, she led the initiative to establish a program on the social consequences of the AIDS epidemic and staffed the Committee on Western Europe. As a member of the Committee on International Trade of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Ergas led a project on child labor and international trade. She has also served on the Committee on World Sociology of the American Sociological Association and the international Research Planning Group on Gender Politics and Public Policies established by the Council for European Studies. Ergas' numerous publications include "Nelle maglie della politica" (Milan: 1986); "The Subject of Women" in M.Perrot and G.Duby (general editors) "A History of Women" (Cambridge: 1994); and "Child Care Policies in Comparative Perspective" in OECD, "Lone Parents: The Economic Challenge" (Paris: 1990). Her essays have been translated into several languages including Portuguese, Japanese, French and German.
Ergas holds degrees in Sociology from the Universities of Sussex and Rome and a J.D. from Columbia University. At Columbia Law School, she also earned a Certificate of Achievement with Honors from the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law and served as an articles editor of the Columbia Law Review. Ergas has practiced law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP and Studio Legale Pedersoli of Milan.