Brandon L Garrett

Brandon L. Garrett (born July 1, 1975) 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. 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.

Works Defending Due Process: Why Fairness Matters in a Polarized World (February 2025, Polity Books, Cambridge; Oxford; Boston; New York)

The Death Penalty: Concepts and Insights (West Academic, 2018) (with Lee Kovarsky) End of its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice (Harvard University Press, 2017)

Federal Habeas Corpus: Executive Detention and Post-Conviction Litigation (Foundation Press, 2013) (with Lee Kovarsky) Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong (Harvard University Press, 2011).