Scholars@Duke
Brandon L Garrett

Brandon L Garrett

L. Neil Williams Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law
School of Law
bgarrett@law.duke.edu
Office 3183 Law School, Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708
Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Error Aversions and Due Process

Journal Article Michigan Law Review · 2023 Link to item Cite

Open Prosecution

Journal Article Stanford Law Review · 2023 Link to item Cite

Fact Stripping

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2023 Link to item Cite

The Brady Database

Journal Article Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 2023 Link to item Cite

Policing and Behavioral Health Conditions

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2023 Link to item Cite

Face Value? How Jurors Evaluate Eyewitness Face Recognition Ability

Journal Article Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition · 2023 Link to item Cite

Originalism and Historical Fact-Finding

Journal Article Georgetown Law Journal · 2023 Link to item Cite

Interpretable Algorithmic Forensics

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2023 Link to item Cite

The Law and Science of Eyewitness Evidence

Journal Article Boston University Law Review · 2022 Link to item Cite

The Trajectory of Federal Gun Crimes

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2022 Link to item Cite

Viral Injustice

Journal Article California Law Review · 2022 Link to item Cite

Forensic Science in Legal Education

Journal Article Journal of Law and Education · 2022 Link to item Cite

Models of Bail Reform

Journal Article Florida Law Review · 2022 Link to item Cite

Jail Health and Early Release Practices

Journal Article William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2022 Cite

Spiraling Criminal Debt

Journal Article Federal Sentencing Reporter · 2022 Cite

AEDPA Repeal

Journal Article Cornell Law Review · 2022 Link to item Cite

Unified Criminal Justice Reform

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2022 Link to item Cite

Surveying Practicing Firearm Examiners

Journal Article Forensic Science International: Synergy · 2022 Link to item Cite

North Carolina Specialty Courts, Treatment Access, and the Substance Use Crisis: A Promising but Underfunded Model.

Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · December 1, 2021 Treatment courts aim to reduce criminal recidivism by addressing the behavioral health care needs of persons with psychiatric or substance use disorders that contribute to their offending. Stable funding and access to behavioral health providers are crucia ... Full text Link to item Cite

How Biden Should Prosecute Corporate Crime

Journal Article The American Prospect · 2021 Link to item Cite

Corporate Crimmigration

Journal Article University of Illinois Law Review · 2021 Link to item Cite

Life Without Parole Sentencing in North Carolina

Journal Article North Carolina Law Review · 2021 Link to item Cite

Closing International Law's Innocence Gap

Journal Article Southern California Law Review · 2021 Link to item Cite

Test a Witness’s Memory of a Suspect Only Once

Journal Article Psychological Science in the Public Interest · 2021 Cite

Can We Get Over IDs?

Journal Article Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition · 2021 Cite

Judges and Forensic Science Education: A National Survey

Journal Article Forensic Science International · 2021 Cite

Error, Forensic Evidence, and the Death Penalty

Journal Article Amicus Journal · 2021 Cite

Innocence Presumptions

Journal Article · 2021 Cite

Error Rates, Likelihood Ratios, and Jury Evaluation of Forensic Evidence.

Journal Article Journal of forensic sciences · July 2020 Forensic examiners regularly testify in criminal cases, informing the jurors whether crime scene evidence likely came from a source. In this study, we examine the impact of providing jurors with testimony further qualified by error rates and likelihood rat ... Full text Cite

Juvenile Life Without Parole in North Carolina

Journal Article Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 2020 Link to item Cite

Judging Risk

Journal Article California Law Review · 2020 Link to item Cite

Board Compliance

Journal Article Minnesota Law Review · 2020 Link to item Cite

Declining Corporate Prosecutions

Journal Article American Criminal Law Review · 2020 Link to item Cite

Error Rates, Likelihood Ratios, and Jury Evaluation of Forensic Evidence

Journal Article Journal of Forensic Sciences · 2020 Cite

Factoring the Role of Eyewitness Evidence in the Courtroom

Journal Article Journal of Empirical Legal Studies · 2020 Cite

Undeliverable: Suspended Driver's Licenses and the Problem of Notice

Journal Article UCLA Criminal Justice Law Review · 2020 Link to item Cite

Wrongful Convictions

Chapter · 2020 Cite

Testing Compliance

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2020 Link to item Cite

Open Risk Assessment

Journal Article Behavioral Sciences & the Law · 2020 Link to item Cite

The Costs and Benefits of Forensics

Journal Article Houston Law Review · 2020 Link to item Cite

Misplaced Constitutional Rights

Journal Article Boston University Law Review · 2020 Link to item Cite

The Transparency of Jail Data

Journal Article Wake Forest Law Review · 2020 Link to item Cite

Two Decades of Corporate Criminal Enforcement

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2020 Link to item Cite

Testing Compliance

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2020 Link to item Cite

The Law on Police Use of Force in the United States

Journal Article German Law Journal · 2020 Link to item Cite

Virtual Criminal Courts

Journal Article The University of Chicago Law Review Online · 2020 Cite

COVID-19 and Criminal Justice

Journal Article The University of Chicago Law Review Online · 2020 Link to item Cite

Genetic Evidence, MAOA, and State v. Yepez

Journal Article New Mexico Law Review · 2020 Cite

Judging Eyewitness Evidence

Journal Article Judicature · 2020 Link to item Cite

Justice in Forensic Algorithms

Journal Article Harvard Data Science Review · 2020 Link to item Cite

Mock Jurors’ Evaluation of Firearm Examiner Testimony

Journal Article Law and Human Behavior · 2020 Cite

Policing the Schoolhouse

Journal Article Boston University Law Review Online · 2020 Cite

Local Evidence in Constitutional Interpretation

Journal Article Cornell Law Review · 2019 Link to item Cite

The State of the Death Penalty

Journal Article Notre Dame Law Review · 2019 Link to item Cite

Wealth, Equal Protection, and Due Process

Journal Article William & Mary Law Review · 2019 Link to item Cite

Federal Criminal Risk Assessment

Journal Article Cardozo Law Review · 2019 Link to item Cite

With Passion: An Activist Lawyer's Life

Journal Article Criminal Law Bulletin · 2019 Cite

UNCONSTITUTIONALLY ILLEGITIMATE DISCRIMINATION

Journal Article VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW · December 1, 2018 Link to item Cite

Evidence-Informed Criminal Justice

Journal Article GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW · November 1, 2018 Link to item Cite

Judicial Appraisals of Risk Assessment in Sentencing

Journal Article Behavioral Sciences & the Law · 2018 Cite

The Proficiency of Experts

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2018 Link to item Cite

The Reliable Application of Fingerprint Evidence

Journal Article UCLA Law Review Discourse · 2018 Link to item Cite

The Myth of the Reliability Test

Journal Article Fordham Law Review · 2018 Link to item Cite

Comparing Categorical and Probabilistic Fingerprint Evidence

Journal Article Journal of Forensic Sciences · 2018 Cite

Introduction: Forensic Fail

Journal Article Judicature · 2018 Link to item Cite

Introduction: Symposium on Forensics, Statistics, and Law

Journal Article Virginia Journal of Criminal Law · 2018 Link to item Cite

The Crime Lab in the Age of the Genetic Panopticon

Journal Article Michigan Law Review · 2017 Cite

Constitutional Reasonableness

Journal Article Minnesota Law Review · 2017 Link to item Cite

The American Death Penalty Decline

Journal Article Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 2017 Link to item Cite

Cumulative Constitutional Rights

Journal Article Boston University Law Review · 2017 Link to item Cite

The Decline of the Virginia (and American) Death Penalty

Journal Article Georgetown Law Journal · 2017 Link to item Cite

The Public Interest in Corporate Settlements

Journal Article Boston College Law Review · 2017 Link to item Cite

A Tactical Fourth Amendment

Journal Article Virginia Law Review · 2017 Link to item Cite

Towards an International Right to Claim Innocence

Journal Article California Law Review · 2017 Link to item Cite

The Global Evolution of Corporate Prosecutions

Journal Article Law and Financial Markets Review · 2017 Cite

The Boom and Bust of American Imprisonment

Journal Article Texas Law Review · 2017 Link to item Cite

Capital Jurors in an Era of Death Penalty Decline

Journal Article Yale Law Journal Forum · 2017 Cite

Patterns of Errors

Journal Article Harvard Law Review Forum · 2017 Cite

DNA and Distrust

Journal Article Notre Dame Law Review · 2016 Link to item Cite

The Metamorphosis of Corporate Criminal Prosecutions

Journal Article Virginia Law Review Online · 2016 Link to item Cite

The Myth of the Presumption of Innocence

Journal Article Texas Law Review See Also · 2016 Link to item Cite

Why Plea Bargains Are Not Confessions

Journal Article William & Mary Law Review · 2016 Link to item Cite

Causes of Wrongful Convictions and the Significance of the Innocence Movement

Journal Article Ritsumeikan ningen kagaku kenkyū · 2016 Cite

The Constitutional Regulation of Forensic Evidence

Journal Article Washington and Lee Law Review · 2016 Link to item Cite

The Changing Face of Corporate Prosecutions

Journal Article The Champion · 2016 Cite

The Rise of Bank Prosecutions

Journal Article Yale Law Journal Forum · 2016 Link to item Cite

Defending Against Wrongful Convictions

Journal Article Quarterly Keiji-Bengo · 2016 Cite

Images of Injustice

Chapter · 2015 Cite

Constitutional Law and the Law of Evidence

Journal Article Cornell Law Review · 2015 Link to item Cite

Contaminated Confessions Revisited

Journal Article Virginia Law Review · 2015 Link to item Cite

The Corporate Criminal as Scapegoat

Journal Article Virginia Law Review · 2015 Link to item Cite

Interrogation Policies

Journal Article University of Richmond Law Review · 2015 Link to item Cite

Accuracy in Sentencing

Journal Article Southern California Law Review · 2014 Link to item Cite

The Constitutional Standing of Corporations

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2014 Link to item Cite

Eyewitness Identifications and Police Practices in Virginia

Journal Article Virginia Journal of Criminal Law · 2014 Link to item Cite

Applause for the Plausible

Journal Article University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online · 2014 Link to item Cite

Big Data and Due Process

Journal Article Cornell Law Review Online · 2014 Link to item Cite

Trial and Error

Chapter · 2013 Cite

Blinded Criminal Justice

Journal Article Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition · 2013 Cite

Remaining Silent after Salinas

Journal Article University of Chicago Law Review Dialogue · 2013 Link to item Cite

Validating the Right to Counsel

Journal Article Washington and Lee Law Review · 2013 Link to item Cite

Aggregation and Constitutional Rights

Journal Article Notre Dame Law Review · 2012 Link to item Cite

Habeas Corpus and Due Process

Journal Article Cornell Law Review · 2012 Link to item Cite

Eyewitnesses and Exclusion

Journal Article Vanderbilt Law Review · 2012 Link to item Cite

Introduction: Symposium on 'Convicting the Innocent

Journal Article New England Law Review · 2012 Link to item Cite

Judges and Wrongful Convictions

Journal Article Court Review · 2012 Link to item Cite

Opening the Black Box: Review of Prosecution Complex

Journal Article Crime, Law and Social Change · 2012 Cite

The Great Writ

Journal Article Review of Politics · 2012 Cite

Globalized Corporate Prosecutions

Journal Article Virginia Law Review · 2011 Link to item Cite

The Substance of False Confessions

Journal Article Stanford Law Review · 2010 Link to item Cite

DNA and Due Process

Journal Article Fordham Law Review · 2010 Link to item Cite

Claiming Innocence

Journal Article Minnesota Law Review · 2008 Link to item Cite

Judging Innocence

Journal Article Columbia Law Review · 2008 Link to item Cite

Corporate Confessions

Journal Article Cardozo Law Review · 2008 Link to item Cite

Structural Reform Prosecution

Journal Article Virginia Law Review · 2007 Link to item Cite

Aggregation in Criminal Law

Journal Article California Law Review · 2007 Link to item Cite

United States v. Goliath

Journal Article Virginia Law Review In Brief · 2007 Link to item Cite

Madisonian Equal Protection

Journal Article Columbia Law Review · 2004 Link to item Cite

Experimentalist Equal Protection

Journal Article Yale Law & Policy Review · 2004 Link to item Cite

Remedying Racial Profiling

Journal Article Columbia Human Rights Law Review · 2001 Link to item Cite

Forensic Bitemark Identification: Weak Foundations, Exaggerated Claims

Journal Article Journal of Law and the Biosciences Cite