Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • J.D., Columbia University 2001
  • B.A., Yale University 1997
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • JUN 14, 2019

    School of Law

    A Busy First Year

  • FEB 13, 2019

    Duke Law

    Should Juveniles Ever Be Sentenced to Life In Prison Without Parole?

  • SEP 18, 2018

    School of Law

    Garrett Maps Plan for Criminal Justice Reform by Exposing Systemic Flaws
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • CSAFE NIST Forensic Science Center of Excellence awarded by Iowa State University 2018 - 2019
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Garrett, B., and L. Kovarsky. The Death Penalty. Foundation Press, 2018.
    • Garrett, B. End of its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice. Harvard University Press, 2017.
    • Garrett, B. End of its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice. : Harvard University Press, 2017. (Monograph)
    • Garrett, B. Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Target Corporations. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
    • Garrett, B., and L. Kovarsky. Federal Habeas Corpus: Executive Detention and Post-Conviction Litigation. Foundation Press, 2013.
    • Garrett, B. Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong. Harvard University Press, 2011.

  • Academic Articles

    • Garrett, B. “Wealth, Equal Protection, and Due Process.” William & Mary Law Review, 2019.
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    • Garrett, B. “Declining Corporate Prosecutions.” American Criminal Law Review, 2019.
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    • Garrett, B. “Self-Policing: Dissemination and Adoption of Police Eyewitness Policies in Virginia.” Virginia Law Review Online, 2019.
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    • Garrett, B. “Federal Criminal Risk Assessment.” Cardozo Law Review, 2019.
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    • Garrett, B., J. Armour, J. Gordon, and G. Min. “Board Compliance.” Minnesota Law Review, 2019.
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    • Garrett, B., K. Modjadidi, K. Renberg, and B. Finholt. “Juvenile Life Without Parole in North Carolina,” 2019.
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    • Garrett, B., and A. Desai. “The State of the Death Penalty.” Notre Dame Law Review 94, no. 3 (2019): 1255–1312.
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    • Garrett, B., and G. Mitchell. “The Impact of Proficiency Testing Information and Error Aversions on the Weight Given to Fingerprint Evidence.” Behavioral Sciences & the Law 37 (2019): 195–210.
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    • Garrett, B., and J. Monahan. “Judging Risk.” California Law Review, 2019.
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    • Garrett, B., and W. Crozier. “Driver's License Suspension in North Carolina,” 2019.
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    • Garrett, Brandon L. “UNCONSTITUTIONALLY ILLEGITIMATE DISCRIMINATION.” Virginia Law Review 104, no. 8 (December 1, 2018): 1471-+.
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    • Garrett, Brandon L. “Evidence-Informed Criminal Justice.” George Washington Law Review 86, no. 6 (November 1, 2018): 1490–1524.
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    • Garrett, B. “Local Evidence in Constitutional Interpretation.” Cornell Law Review, 2018.
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    • Garrett, B. “The Reliable Application of Fingerprint Evidence.” Ucla Law Review Discourse 66 (2018): 64–79.
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    • Garrett, B. “Introduction: Forensics Fail.” Judicature 102, no. 1 (2018): 15–17.
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    • Garrett, B. “A Pioneer in Forensic Science Reform: The Work of Paul Giannelli.” Case Western Law Review 68, no. 3 (2018): 681–84.
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    • Garrett, B., A. Rairden, S. Kelley, D. Murrie, and A. Castillo. “Resolving Latent Conflict: What Happens When Latent Print Examiners Enter the Cage?.” Forensic Science International 289 (2018): 215–22.
    • Garrett, B., G. Mitchell, and N. Scurich. “Comparing Categorical and Probabilistic Fingerprint Evidence.” Journal of Forensic Sciences 63, no. 6 (2018): 1712–17.
    • Garrett, B., J. Monahan, and A. Metz. “Judicial Appraisals of Risk Assessment in Sentencing,” 2018.
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    • Garrett, B., N. Li, and S. Rajgopal. “Do Heads Roll? An Empirical Analysis of CEO Turnover and Pay When the Corporation is Federally Prosecuted,” 2018.
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    • Garrett, B., and G. Mitchell. “The Proficiency of Experts.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 166, no. 4 (2018): 901–60.
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    • Garrett, B., and M. Fabricant. “The Myth of the Reliability Test.” Fordham Law Review 86, no. 4 (2018): 1559–99.
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    • Garrett, B. “Constitutional Reasonableness.” Minnesota Law Review 102, no. 1 (2017): 61–126.
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    • Garrett, B. “The Decline of the Virginia (and American) Death Penalty.” Georgetown Law Journal 105, no. 3 (2017): 661–729.
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    • Garrett, B. “The Public Interest in Corporate Settlements.” Boston College Law Review 58, no. 5 (2017): 1483–1543.
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    • Garrett, B. “Towards an International Right to Claim Innocence.” California Law Review 105, no. 4 (2017): 1173–1221.
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    • Garrett, B. “Trials and Errors: Inside the Great Forensic-Science Boondoggle.” The Baffler 34 (2017).
    • Garrett, B. “The Global Evolution of Corporate Prosecutions.” Law and Financial Markets Review 11, no. 3-Feb (2017): 55–60.
    • Garrett, B. “The Boom and Bust of American Imprisonment.” Texas Law Review 96, no. 1 (2017): 163–79.
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    • Garrett, B. “The Crime Lab in the Age of the Genetic Panopticon.” Michigan Law Review 115, no. 6 (2017): 979–99.
    • Garrett, B., A. Jakubow, and A. Desai. “The American Death Penalty Decline.” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 107, no. 4 (2017): 561–642.
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    • Garrett, B., D. Krauss, and N. Scurich. “Capital Jurors in an Era of Death Penalty Decline.” Yale Law Journal Forum 126 (2017): 417–30.
    • Garrett, B., and K. Abrams. “Cumulative Constitutional Rights.” Boston University Law Review 97, no. 4 (2017): 1309–55.
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    • Garrett, B., and S. Stoughton. “A Tactical Fourth Amendment.” Virginia Law Review 103, no. 2 (2017): 211–307.
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    • Garrett, B. "The Crime Lab in the Age of the Genetic Panopticon." Michigan Law Review 115, no. 6 (2017): 979-999. (Review)
    • Abrams, K., and B. Garrett. “DNA and Distrust.” Notre Dame Law Review 91, no. 2 (2016): 757–814.
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    • Garrett, B. “The Metamorphosis of Corporate Criminal Prosecutions.” Virginia Law Review Online 101 (2016): 60–72.
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    • Garrett, B. “The Myth of the Presumption of Innocence.” Texas Law Review See Also 94 (2016): 178–87.
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    • Garrett, B. “Why Plea Bargains Are Not Confessions.” William & Mary Law Review 57, no. 4 (2016): 1415–44.
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    • Garrett, B. “Causes of Wrongful Convictions and the Significance of the Innocence Movement.” Ritsumeikan Ningen Kagaku Kenkyū 34 (2016): 77–89.
    • Garrett, B. “The Constitutional Regulation of Forensic Evidence.” Washington and Lee Law Review 73, no. 3 (2016): 1147–87.
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    • Garrett, B. “The Changing Face of Corporate Prosecutions.” The Champion, no. 40 (2016): 48-51,63.
    • Garrett, B. “Rare as Hens' Teeth: The New Geography of the American Death Penalty.” Human Rights 42, no. 2 (2016): 2,9-4,9.
    • Garrett, B. “The Rise of Bank Prosecutions.” Yale Law Journal Forum 126 (2016): 33–56.
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    • Garrett, B. “Bad Hair: The Legal Response to Mass Forensic Errors.” Litigation 42, no. 4 (2016): 32–36.
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    • Garrett, B. “Defending Against Wrongful Convictions.” Quarterly Keiji Bengo, 2016.
    • Garrett, B., and G. Mitchell. “Forensics and Fallibility: Comparing the Views of Lawyers and Jurors.” West Virginia Law Review 119, no. 2 (2016): 621–37.
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    • Garrett, B. “Constitutional Law and the Law of Evidence.” Cornell Law Review 101, no. 1 (2015): 57–122.
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    • Garrett, B. “Contaminated Confessions Revisited.” Virginia Law Review 101, no. 2 (2015): 395–454.
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    • Garrett, B. “The Corporate Criminal as Scapegoat.” Virginia Law Review 101, no. 7 (2015): 1789–1853.
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    • Garrett, B. “Interrogation Policies.” University of Richmond Law Review 49, no. 3 (2015): 895–919.
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    • Garrett, B. “Accuracy in Sentencing.” Southern California Law Review 87, no. 3 (2014): 499–544.
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    • Garrett, B. “The Constitutional Standing of Corporations.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 163, no. 1 (2014): 95–164.
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    • Garrett, B. “Eyewitness Identifications and Police Practices in Virginia.” Virginia Journal of Criminal Law 2, no. 1 (2014): 1–24.
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    • Garrett, B. “Applause for the Plausible.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online 162 (2014): 221–30.
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    • Garrett, B. “Big Data and Due Process.” Cornell Law Review Online 99 (2014): 207–16.
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    • Garrett, B. “The Banality of Wrongful Executions.” Michigan Law Review 112, no. 6 (2014): 979–92.
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    • Garrett, B. “Blinded Criminal Justice.” Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition 2, no. 1 (2013): 73–75.
    • Garrett, B. “Habeas Corpus Standing Alone: A Reply to Lee B. Kovarsky and Stephen I. Vladeck.” Cornell Law Review Online 98 (2013): 35–42.
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    • Garrett, B. “Remaining Silent after Salinas.” University of Chicago Law Review Dialogue 80 (2013): 116–29.
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    • Garrett, B. “Validating the Right to Counsel.” Washington and Lee Law Review 70, no. 2 (2013): 927–59.
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    • Garrett, B., and G. Mitchell. “How Jurors Evaluate Fingerprint Evidence: The Relative Importance of Match Language, Method Information, and Error Acknowledgment.” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 10, no. 3 (2013): 484–511.
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    • Garrett, B. “Aggregation and Constitutional Rights.” Notre Dame Law Review 88, no. 2 (2012): 593–648.
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    • Garrett, B. “Habeas Corpus and Due Process.” Cornell Law Review 98, no. 1 (2012): 47–126.
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    • Garrett, B. “Eyewitnesses and Exclusion.” Vanderbilt Law Review 65, no. 2 (2012): 451–506.
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    • Garrett, B. “Trial and Error: Learning from Patterns of Mistakes.” Criminal Justice 26, no. 4 (2012): 30–42.
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    • Garrett, B. “Introduction: Symposium on 'Convicting the Innocent.” New England Law Review 46, no. 4 (2012): 671–87.
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    • Garrett, B. “Judges and Wrongful Convictions.” Court Review 48, no. 4 (2012): 132–36.
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    • Garrett, B. “Opening the Black Box: Review of Prosecution Complex.” Crime, Law and Social Change 58, no. 5 (2012): 567–73.
    • Garrett, B. “The Great Writ.” Review of Politics 74, no. 2 (2012): 346–48.
    • Garrett, B. “Globalized Corporate Prosecutions.” Virginia Law Review 97, no. 8 (2011): 1775–1875.
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    • Garrett, B. “The Substance of False Confessions.” Stanford Law Review 62, no. 4 (2010): 1051–1118.
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    • Garrett, B. “DNA and Due Process.” Fordham Law Review 78, no. 6 (2010): 2919–60.
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    • Garrett, B., and P. Neufeld. “Invalid Forensic Science Testimony and Wrongful Convictions.” Virginia Law Review 95, no. 1 (2009): 1–97.
    • Garrett, B. “Claiming Innocence.” Minnesota Law Review 92, no. 6 (2008): 1629–1723.
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    • Garrett, B. “Judging Innocence.” Columbia Law Review 108, no. 1 (2008): 55–142.
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    • Garrett, B. “Corporate Confessions.” Cardozo Law Review 30, no. 3 (2008): 917–47.
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    • Garrett, B. “Structural Reform Prosecution.” Virginia Law Review 93, no. 4 (2007): 853–957.
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    • Garrett, B. “Aggregation in Criminal Law.” California Law Review 95, no. 2 (2007): 383–450.
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    • Garrett, B. “United States v. Goliath.” Virginia Law Review in Brief 93 (2007): 105–14.
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    • Garrett, B., and T. Tetlow. “Criminal Justice Collapse: The Constitution after Hurricane Katrina.” Duke Law Journal 56, no. 1 (2006): 127–78.
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    • Garrett, B. “Innocence, Harmless Error, and Federal Wrongful Conviction Law.” Wisconsin Law Review 2005, no. 1 (2005): 35–114.
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    • Garrett, B., and J. Liebman. “Madisonian Equal Protection.” Columbia Law Review 104, no. 4 (2004): 837–974.
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    • Garrett, B., and J. Liebman. “Experimentalist Equal Protection.” Yale Law & Policy Review 22, no. 2 (2004): 261–327.
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    • Garrett, B. “Remedying Racial Profiling.” Columbia Human Rights Law Review 33, no. 1 (2001): 41–148.
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    • Garrett, B. “Standing While Black: Distinguishing Lyons in Racial Profiling Cases.” Columbia Law Review 100, no. 7 (2000): 1815–46.
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  • Book Sections

    • Garrett, B. “International Corporate Prosecutions.” In The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Process, 419–36. Oxford University Press, 2019.
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    • Garrett, B. “Individual and Corporate Criminals.” In Research Handbook on Corporate Crime and Financial Misdealing. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018.
    • Garrett, B. “Innocence and the Global Death Penalty.” In Comparative Capital Punishment Law. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018.
    • Garrett, B. “Actual Innocence and Wrongful Convictions.” In Reforming Criminal Justice Volume 3: Pretrial and Trial Processes. The Academy for Justice, 2017.
    • Garrett, B. “The Rise of Corporate Prosecutions in America.” In Lei Anticorrupção e Temas de Compliance. Editora JusPODIVM, 2017.
    • Garrett, B. “The Constitutional Rights of Corporations in the United States.” In Understanding the Company: Corporate Governance and Theory. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
    • Garrett, B. “Convicting the Innocent Redux.” In Wrongful Convictions and the DNA Revolution: Twenty-Five Years of Freeing the Innocent. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
    • Garrett, B. “In the Shadow of the Death Penalty.” In Death Penalty and the Victims, 104–10. United Nations, Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, 2016.
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    • Garrett, B. “In the Shadow of the Death Penalty.” In Death Penalty and the Victims. United Nations, Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, 2016.
    • Garrett, B. “Blinding Eyewitness Identifications.” In Blinding as a Solution to Bias: Strengthening Biomedical Science, Forensic Science, and Law. Academic Press, 2016.
    • Garrett, B. “Images of Injustice.” In Punishment in Popular Culture. New York University Press, 2015.
    • Garrett, B. “Wrongful Convictions and the Role of Forensic Science.” In Wiley Encyclopedia of Forensic Science. John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
    • Garrett, B. “Roots of Wrongful Convictions.” In Comparative Decision Making. Oxford University Press, 2013.
    • Garrett, B. “Trial and Error.” In Wrongful Convictions and Miscarriages of Justice: Causes and Remedies in North American and European Criminal Justice Systems. Routledge, 2013.
    • Garrett, B. “Collaborative Organizational Prosecution.” In Prosecutors in the Boardroom: Using Criminal Law to Regulate Corporate Conduct. New York University Press, 2011.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • LAW 472: Amicus Lab 2019
  • LAW 502: Forensics Litigation 2019
  • LAW 584: Forensic Science Colloquium 2019
  • LAW 505: Criminal Justice Policy Lab 2018
  • PUBPOL 792: Special Readings in Public Policy Studies 2018

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