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bgarrett@virginia.edu
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Crystal Smith
SUBJECTS
Civil procedure, civil rights, complex litigation, constitutional law, criminal procedure, federal courts, policing, remedies, torts, wrongful conviction, class actions, equal protection
Roy L. and Rosamond Woodruff Morgan Professor of Law
J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 2001
B.A., Yale University, 1997
Brandon L. Garrett joined the law faculty in 2005. His research and teaching interests include criminal procedure, wrongful convictions, habeas corpus, corporate crime, scientific evidence, civil rights, civil procedure and constitutional law.
Garrett’s recent research includes studies of DNA exonerations and organizational prosecutions. The research web pages below provide data related to those studies. Harvard University Press recently 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. Garrett is currently working on a new book, in contract with Harvard University Press, examining corporate prosecutions.
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.
Federal Corporate Prosecution and Plea Agreement Data
"Convicting the Innocent" Data
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Books:
Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Target Corporations (Harvard University Press, forthcoming Fall 2014).
Federal Habeas Corpus: Executive Detention and Post-Conviction Litigation (with Lee Kovarsky) (Foundation Press casebook, forthcoming Spring 2013).
Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong (Harvard University Press, 2011).
Articles:
"How Jurors Evaluate Fingerprint Evidence: The Relative Importance of Match Language, Method Information and Error Acknowledgement" (with Gregory Mitchell) J Empirical Legal Stud. (forthcoming 2013).
"Aggregation and Constitutional Rights," 87 Notre Dame L. Rev. 593 (2013).
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"Habeas Corpus and Due Process," 68 Cornell L. Rev. 47 (2012).
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"Eyewitnesses and Exclusion, 65 Vand. L. Rev. 451 (2012).
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"Globalized Corporate Prosecutions, 97 Va. L. Rev. 1775 (2011).
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"The Substance of False Confessions," 62 Stan. L. Rev. 1051 (2010).
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"Invalid Forensic Science Testimony and Wrongful Convictions" (with Peter Neufeld), 95 Va. L. Rev. 1 (2009).
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"Claiming Innocence," 92 Minn. L. Rev. 1629 (2008).
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"Judging Innocence," 108 Colum. L. Rev. 55 (2008).
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"Structural Reform Prosecution," 93 Va. L. Rev. 853 (2007).
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"Aggregation in Criminal Law," 95 Cal. L. Rev. 383 (2007).
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"Criminal Justice Collapse: The Constitution After Hurricane Katrina" (with Tania Tetlow), 56 Duke L. J. 127 (2006).
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"Innocence, Harmless Error and Federal Wrongful Conviction Law," 2005 Wisc. L. Rev. 35.
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"Madisonian Equal Protection" (with James Liebman), 104 Colum. L. Rev. 837 (2004).
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"Experimentalist Equal Protection" (with James Liebman), 22 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 261 (2004).
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"Remedying Racial Profiling," 33 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 41 (2001).
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"Standing While Black: Distinguishing Lyons in Racial Profiling Cases," 100 Colum. L. Rev. 1815 (2000).
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Book Chapters:
"Images of Injustice" (chapter in Punishment and Popular Culture, ed. Austin Sarat & Charles Ogletree (NYU Press, forthcoming 2014).
"Trial and Error" (chapter in Wrongful Convictions and Miscarriages of Justice, ed. Ronald Huff & Martin Killias (Routledge, 2013)
"Collaborative Organizational Prosecution," in Rachel Barkow and Anthony Barkow, eds., Prosecutors in the Boardroom: Using Criminal Law to Regulate Corporate Conduct 154 (New York University Press, 2011).
Essays:
"Eyewitness Identifications and Police Practices in Virginia," 3 Va. J. Criminal L. __ (forthcoming 2014).
"Accuracy in Sentencing," 86 S. Cal. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2014) (symposium issue).
"Validating the Right to Counsel," 70 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2013) (symposium issue).
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"Introduction: Symposium on ‘Convicting the Innocent,’" 46 New Eng. L. Rev. 671 (2012) (symposium issue).
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"DNA and Due Process," 78 Fordham L. Rev. 2919 (2010).
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"Corporate Confessions," 30 Cardozo L. Rev. (2009) (symposium issue).
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Book Reviews and Shorter Works:
"The Banality of Wrongful Convictions," 112 Mich. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2013) (book review of Dan Simon, In Doubt, and James Liebman et al., Los Tocayos Carlos).
"Habeas Corpus Standing Alone: A Reply to Lee B. Kovarsky and Stephen I. Vladeck," Cornell L. Rev. Online (forthcoming 2013).
"Blinded Criminal Justice," J. Applied Res. Memory & Cog., Commentary on “The Forensic Confirmation Bias,” by Saul Kassin, Itiel Dror and Jeff Kukucka (2013).
"Roots of Wrongful Convictions," Commentary in Comparative Decision Making, ed. Philip H. Crowley & Thomas R. Zentall (Oxford U. Press 2013).
"Judges and Wrongful Convictions," 48 Ct. Rev. 132 (2012).
"Opening the Black Box," 58 Crime, L. & Soc. Change 567 (2012) (book review of Dan Medwed, Prosecution Complex).
"The Great Writ," Rev. of Pol. (2012) (book review, Justin J. Wert, Habeas Corpus in America).
"United States v. Goliath," 93 Va. L. Rev. In Brief 91 (2007).
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