Alexander A. Reinert

Alexander A. Reinert
Alexander A. Reinert
Spouse	Betsy Ginsberg
Academic background
Education	Brown University (BA); New York University (JD)
Academic work
Discipline	Law
Sub-discipline	Constitutional law; Civil procedure; Criminal law
Institutions	Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Alexander A. Reinert is an American legal scholar working as a professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Reinert specializes in the areas of civil procedure, civil rights law, rights of prisoners and detainees, and constitutional law.^[1]

Education

Reinert received his bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1994 and a Juris Doctor from the New York University School of Law in 1999.^[1]

Career

Following law school, Reinert clerked for Harry T. Edwards, of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, followed by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.^[1]

Reinert conducts research in the areas of constitutional law, civil procedure, and criminal law.^[1] His articles have appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the University of Illinois Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, among other journals.^[1]

Ashcroft v. Iqbal

Reinert is also well known for having litigated and argued the United States Supreme Court case Ashcroft v. Iqbal.^[2] The Supreme Court ultimately decided that Iqbal had not stated, with sufficient specificity, a claim against Attorney General John Ashcroft and other high ranking governmental officials, sending Reinert and his client back to rewrite the complaint.^[3]