He joined the law faculty in 2005. Garrett’s areas of research and publication include criminal procedure, wrongful convictions, habeas corpus, corporate crime, civil rights, and civil procedure. While a law student, he was an articles editor of the Columbia Law Review and a Kent Scholar. After graduating he clerked for the Honorable Pierre N. Leval of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He then worked as an associate in New York City at Cochran, Neufeld & Scheck LLP, litigating wrongful conviction, DNA exoneration, and police brutality cases.