Prof. Gal is Chair in Child and Youth Rights and Academic Director of the Child and Youth Rights Program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Faculty of Law and Institute of Criminology. She holds a PhD (Law, the Australian National University, under the supervision of criminologist John Braithwaite), an LLM (American University Washington College of Law), and an LLB (Hebrew University). Her scholarship integrates legal, criminological, and psycho-social knowledge and involves restorative justice, children’s rights, and therapeutic jurisprudence. She is the author of the book Child Victims and Restorative Justice: A Needs-Rights Model (OUP, 2011), and co-editor (with Benedetta Faedi-Duramy) of International Perspectives and Empirical Findings on Child Participation (OUP, 2015). Before joining the Hebrew University in 2022, she was a faculty member at the University of Haifa, where she was Head of the School of Criminology since 2018. Prof. Gal has published extensively in peer-review and law-review journals in the areas of her expertise. Tali holds editorial roles at The International Journal of Restorative Justice, Youth Justice, and Frontiers of Psychology; and is a Founding Board Member of the Israeli Society of Victimology. Prior to joining academia, Tali was the Legal Advisor of the Israel National Council for the Child.