Dean Brian Gallini
Brian Gallini earned his bachelor of arts degree from College of the Holy Cross, his master of laws degree from Temple University Beasley School of Law and his juris doctor from the University of Michigan Law School.
Gallini joined the Quinnipiac University School of Law as dean and professor of law in July 2024. Prior to Quinnipiac, Gallini served as dean and professor of law at Willamette University College of Law. During his four-year tenure as dean, he recruited the largest and most academically well-credentialed 1L class in more than a decade, secured the second largest gift in the Willamette University College of Law’s history, posted the highest 10-month gold standard employment numbers on the West Coast, and critically evaluated its approach to diversity, equity and inclusion. Through his service on Oregon’s Alternatives to Bar Exam Task Force, he appeared several times before the Oregon Supreme Court prior to the court’s historic vote in November 2023 to approve a new pathway to attorney licensure.
Gallini previously served in a variety of administrative roles while on the faculty at the University of Arkansas School of Law teaching courses in criminal law and procedure. Among his administrative leadership appointments, he served as director of distance learning initiatives, senior associate dean for faculty and associate dean for research and faculty development.
Gallini is a leading scholar in criminal law and has developed seminars, taught overseas, and is regularly interviewed by local, state, national and international media outlets to provide expert legal commentary. His scholarship focuses on law enforcement discretion issues in the context of interrogation methods, consent searches and profiling. He is also the two-time winner of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Call-for-Papers competition and, in 2017, was named the Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award Winner.
Gallini serves on ABA site-inspection teams, as an AccessLex liaison regarding student service initiatives, and remains active in a number of Association of American Law Schools and Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) committees.
Outside of academia, Gallini served for more than a decade as the head coach for two men’s college ice hockey teams, compiling more than 200 wins during separate tenures with the University of Pennsylvania and Arkansas. While coaching at Arkansas, he amassed five conference titles, three appearances at the Division III National Tournament and was voted the 2013-14 SECHC Coach of the Year.
