Garrett’s recent book examining corporate prosecutions, titled “Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations,” was published by Harvard University Press in Fall 2014. Translations are forthcoming in Spain and Taiwan. A new book examining the implications of the decline of the death penalty is in contract with Harvard University Press. In 2011, Harvard University Press published Garrett’s book, "Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong," examining the cases of the first 250 people to be exonerated by DNA testing. That book was the subject of a symposium issue in New England Law Review, and received an A.B.A. Silver Gavel Award, Honorable Mention, and a Constitutional Commentary Award. It was translated for editions in China, Japan and Taiwan. In 2013, Foundation Press published Garrett’s casebook, “Federal Habeas Corpus: Executive Detention and Post-Conviction Litigation,” co-authored with Lee Kovarsky. Garrett’s work has been widely cited by courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, lower federal courts, state supreme courts, and courts in other countries, such as the Supreme Courts of Canada and Israel. Garrett also frequently speaks about criminal justice matters before legislative and policymaking bodies, groups of practicing lawyers, law enforcement, and to local and national media.
Garrett attended Columbia Law School, where he was an articles editor of the Columbia Law Review and a Kent Scholar. After graduating, he clerked for the Hon. Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He then worked as an associate at Neufeld, Scheck & Brustin LLP in New York City.
University of Virginia School of Law, Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law, August 2015 – present
Roy L. and Rosamund Woodruff Morgan Professor of Law, August 2011 – August 2014
Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, August 2010 – present
Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, June 2005 – August 2010
Oxford University, Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, April – June 2015
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL, New York, NY, J.D. May 2001
Honors: E.B. Convers Prize, Samuel L. Rosenman Prize, Class of 1912 Prize
Columbia Law Review, Articles Editor, 2000-2001
James Kent Scholar, 1998-2000
YALE COLLEGE, New Haven, CT, B.A. in Philosophy, May 1997
Honors: Cum laude, distinction in the Philosophy Major
