Professor Garland received his A.B. from Fairfield University and his J.D. from Seton Hall University. He was law secretary to a Superior Court Judge in New Jersey and a partner in Stanziale and Garland in Newark. At the request of the A.B.A.'s Central and Eastern European Law Institute, he prepared a commentary for Romanian legislators concerning that country's expropriation law. He came to Seton Hall in 1970, was an adjunct professor from 1974-76 and returned as a full-time professor in 1976. He served as associate dean from 1983-84.