Patrick M. Garry is a senior fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy and professor of law at the University of South Dakota School of Law. Previously he was a research scholar at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, a visiting scholar at Columbia University Law School, and served as a legal advisor to the Silha Center for Media Law and Ethics at the University of Minnesota. An author of numerous law review articles, editorials, and books, he is also a contributor to The Oxford Companion to the United States Supreme Court, The Encyclopedia of the U.S. Supreme Court, The Oxford Companion to U.S. History, The Encyclopedia of the First Amendment, and The Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment.