Assistant Professor of Law

B.A., J.D., LL.M.

Email: mailto:bgallini@uark.edu
Phone: (479) 575-6973

Professor Brian Gallini received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 2002.  While at Michigan, Professor Gallini served as the Articles Editor on the Michigan Journal of International Law.  After his graduation from law school, Professor Gallini served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Robert W. Clifford on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.  He thereafter joined the Washington, D.C., office of Duane Morris LLP practicing white-collar criminal defense.
 
Professor Gallini left practice in 2005 to clerk for the Honorable Richard Allen Griffin on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Court.  Before joining the University of Arkansas, Professor Gallini taught for two years at the Temple University Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 
Outside of academia, Professor Gallini has coached ice hockey for the past several years.  Notably, he served as the Head Coach for the University of Pennsylvania Men’s Ice Hockey Team from 2006-08 and is now the Associate Head Coach for the University of Arkansas Men’s Ice Hockey Team.  You can follow his team at http://www.razorbackhockey.com/.

Professor Gallini lives in Fayetteville with his wife, Beth.

Recently Taught Courses

Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure
Advanced Criminal Procedure
Problems in Police Discretion

In Print

Car stops, Borders, and Profiling:  The Hunt for Illegal Immigrants in Border Towns (in progress) (with Elizabeth Young)

From Philly to Fayetteville:  Reflections on Teaching Criminal Law in the First Year (in submission).

Police “Science” in the Interrogation Room:  The Use of Pseudo-Psychological Interrogation Methods to Obtain Seventy Years of Inadmissible Confessions, 61 Hastings L.J.__(forthcoming Feb. 2010) (lead article)

Step Out of the Car:  License, Registration, and DNA Please, 62 Ark. L. Rev. 475 (2009) (solicited).

Help Wanted: Seeking One Good Appellate Brief That Forces the Arkansas Supreme Court to Clarify its Criminal Discovery Jurisprudence, 2009 Ark. L. Notes 97 (2009) (peer-edited).

Equal Sentences for Unequal Participation:  Should the Eighth Amendment Allow All Juvenile Murder Accomplices to Receive Life Without Parole? 87 Or. L. Rev. 29 (2008) (lead article).

Herding Bullfrogs Towards a More Balanced Wheelbarrow:  An Illustrative Recommendation for Federal Sentencing Post-Booker, 33 Notre Dame J. Legis. 1 (2006).

In the News

Mike Linn, Prison time pared for ex-school clerk; Judge agrees 80-year term excessive, Arkansas Democrat Gazette (Sept. 12, 2009).

Walter Hamilton, Bernard Madoff gets 150 years, L.A. Times (June 29, 2009)

Radio Interview, KCSN 88.5 FM California State University Northridge (Mar. 23, 2009)
audio mp3

Press Release, Supreme Court and 8th Amendment Fail to Provide Direction on Sentencing of Juveniles, New Study Finds (Feb. 25, 2009).

Julie Stewart, Woman ruled mentally ill, acquitted in abduction, Arkansas Democrat Gazette (Nov. 7, 2008).

Michelle Bradford, Benton County:  Two Appeal Verdicts for Killing in Lowell, Arkansas Democrat Gazette (Oct. 22, 2008).

Michelle Bradford, Judge:  Defendant Can Keep Representing Himself in Benton County Case, Arkansas Democrat Gazette (Aug. 15, 2008).