Brandon Garrett
Brandon L. Garrett is an American legal scholar. He is the L. Neil Williams, Jr. Professor of Law and director of the Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke University School of Law, where he has taught since 2018. He was previously the White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs and Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia.
Education
In 1997, Garrett received his BA from Yale University. In 2001, Garrett received his JD from Columbia Law School, where he was an articles editor of the Columbia Law Review and a James Kent Scholar.Career
Garrett clerked for Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Garrett worked as an associate at Neufeld, Scheck & Brustin LLP in New York City. Beginning in 2005, Garrett taught at the University of Virginia and was the White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs and Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law. In 2015, he was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University. In 2018, Garrett joined Duke University School of Law.Works
- Defending Due Process: Why Fairness Matters in a Polarized World
- The Death Penalty: Concepts and Insights
- End of its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice
- Federal Habeas Corpus: Executive Detention and Post-Conviction Litigation
- Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong.