Dr. Meital Pinto Post Doctoral Fellow The Minerva Center for Human Rights Faculty of Law The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Academic

Areas of Specialization and Teaching Competence: Jurisprudence and Public Law ‎‎(Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Criminal Law).‎

Research Interests: Multiculturalism, Distributive and Social Justice, Minority Rights, ‎Contemporary Political and Legal Theory, Theories of Equality, Jurisprudence and Comparative ‎Constitutional law. ‎

 

Legal Education 

	2005 - 2009	SJD,  the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Dissertation Title: Equality of Identity. Supervisor: Lorraine Weinrib. Committee Members: Denise Réaume and Sophia Reibetanz Moreau.
	2004 - 2005	LLM, the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Thesis Topic: Language Rights in Israel: Meeting the Challenges [Grade: A+]
	2003 - 2004	Supreme Court of Israel (Jerusalem) - Clerk to the Honorable Supreme Court Justice Asher. D. Grunis
	1999 - 2003	LL.B. magna cum laude, IDC (Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya).

Publications

• "Philosophy of Language Policy" (forthcoming, 2011) in  Bernard Spolsky ed., The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) (With Denise Réaume). 
   

• "Who is Afraid of Language Rights in Israel?" (2009) in Ohad Nachtomy and Avi Sagi eds., The Multicultural Challenge in Israel ‎(Boston: Academic Studies Press) 26-51
         

• "On the Intrinsic Value of Arabic in Israel - Challenging Kymlicka on Language Rights" (2007) 20(1) The Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 143-172.  
   

• "Language Rights, Immigration and Minorities in Israel" (2006) 10(1) Mishpat Umimshal (Law and Government, University of Haifa Law Review) 223-269. (Hebrew). 
   
  

• "The Role of the Judiciary in Affirmative Action" in Anat Maor, ed., Affirmative Action in Israel - Policy, Application, Challenges (Ramot: Tel Aviv University Press, 2004) (With H. Sommer). (Hebrew). 

Awards

• University of Toronto, Faculty of Law - Faculty Fellowship year 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007.

• Israel Association for Canadian Studies (IACA) - Fellowship year 2004-2005.

• IDC Annual Student Paper Competition (2004) - Scholarship for the 2^nd prize.

• Delta Kappa Gamma Society International for Key Woman Educators – World fellowship 2005-2006.

• Canadian Friends of Peace Now - 1^st Annual CFPN Peace Fellowship year 2006.

• The Hon. Mr. Justice Warren. K. Winkler Graduate Fellowship in International Human Rights year 2007-2008.

• Naomi Overend Fellowship in Human Rights year 2007-2008.
  

Presentations

• “The Post Disengagement Challenge: Facing the Clash between Linguistic Minorities in Israel”, in The Twenty Second Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies 2006, May 28^th to May 31^st 2006, Banff, Calgary. 
   

• “Theoretical Framework for Selecting Minority Languages That Should be Protected by Language Rights Illustrated by the Israeli Linguistic Case”, in The Tenth International Conference  of the  International Academy of Linguistic Law, June 14^th to June 17^th 2006, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
   

• “No Offence against Feelings?”, in The Twenty Third Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies 2007, June 11th to June 13th, Raanana, Israel.

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