Rate My Professor David Garland

Garland's academic career began at the University of Edinburgh Faculty of Law, where he served as lecturer from 1979 to 1990, reader from 1990 to 1992, and personal chair from 1992 to 1997. Since 1997, he has been at New York University, appointed Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law in 2001. He has held distinguished visiting positions, including Shimizu Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics in 2014, McK. Brown Visiting Chair in Law at the University of British Columbia in 2013, and Honorary Professor at Edinburgh Law School. Key publications include Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies (1985), Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory (1990), The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society (2001), Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition (2010), The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction (2016), and Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment (2025). His contributions have garnered major awards, including the Edwin H. Sutherland Award and Michael J. Hindelang Award (both 2012, American Society of Criminology), John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2006-2007), Sellin-Glueck Prize (1993), fellowships in the British Academy, Royal Society of Edinburgh, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and honorary doctorates from the Free University of Brussels (2009), University of Oslo (2017), and University of Edinburgh (2025). Garland founded and served as editor-in-chief of Punishment & Society (1997-2001) and holds positions on multiple editorial boards.