Dr. Meital Pinto is a senior lecturer at the Zefat Academic College Law School and the Ono Academic College Faculty of Law in Israel. Dr. Pinto has an SJD (2009) and an LLM (2005) from the University of Toronto; and an LLB degree (2003) in law and government from Reichman University (magna cum laude). Prior to her graduate studies, she served as a law clerk to Justice Asher Grunis of the Israeli Supreme Court. In 2022, she was a visiting fellow at the University of Chicago. Dr. Pinto’s research focuses on the issues of discrimination and minority rights within multicultural societies (especially language rights and religious freedom), including the rights of women as minorities within minorities. Dr. Meital Pinto is a board member of the Israel Association of Public Law and served as its secretary general (2017-2020). Dr. Pinto is also an activist and a member of the Forum of Law Professors for Democracy’s steering committee and a member of the Civic Mizrachi Collective. Within this framework, she writes position papers and volunteers to give lectures on the topic of democracy and the judicial overhaul to the general public in schools, community centers, and private homes. Dr. Pinto is also a member of the steering committee of the Zulat Institute for Research on Equality and Human Rights.