Stephen Garvey

Stephen Garvey has written and taught in the areas of capital punishment, criminal law, and the philosophy of criminal law. Following his graduation from Yale Law School, Professor Garvey clerked for the Hon. Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then practiced in the Washington, D.C. firm of Covington & Burling. He joined the Cornell Law School Faculty in 1994.

Professor Garvey’s current scholarship focuses on substantive criminal law.

Education

• B.A., Colgate, 1987
• M.Phil., Oxford, 1989
• J.D., Yale, 1992

EXPERTISE

Criminal Law and Procedure

Publications

• Garvey, Stephen P., “Versari Crimes,” Arizona State Law Journal (forthcoming)
• Garvey, Stephen P., “Insanity,” Palgrave Handbook of Applied Ethics and the Criminal Law (Larry Alexander & Kim Kessler Ferzan eds, 2019)
• Garvey, Stephen P., “Agency and Insanity,” Buffalo Law Review 66 (February 15, 2018)
• Garvey, Stephen P., “Authority, Freedom, and the Guilty Mind,” Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-7 (February 8, 2016)
• Garvey, Stephen P., “Injustice, Authority, and the Criminal Law,” Sarat, Austin, ed., The Punitive Imagination: Law, Justice, and Responsibility (The University of Alabama Press, 2014)