Law Professor Wins Best Paper Award for 'History’s Unspoken Fourth Amendment Anomaly'

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Brian Gallini

University of Arkansas School of Law associate professor Brian Gallini’s “Schneckloth v. Bustamonte: History’s Unspoken Fourth Amendment Anomaly” was selected best paper for the Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ annual call for papers. Gallini will present his paper and receive the award in late July at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools' annual conference in Amelia Island, Fla.

Gallini’s paper, which will be published as the lead article in the March 2012 issue of the Tennessee Law Review, considers the “set of circumstances led the [U.S. Supreme] Court to conclude that the Fourth Amendment does not require that citizens be informed of their right to refuse consent” and “reveals why the Court should reconsider whether the Fourth Amendment requires officers to inform citizens of their right to refuse consent.”

This marks the third consecutive year a School of Law professor has been honored with the best paper award. In 2011, assistant professor Laurent Sacharoff won for “Miranda’s Hidden Right,” and in 2010, professor Uche Ewelukwa won for “Homeless Children and the Law in America 1700 to 1900: An International Human Rights Critique.”