Alexander A. Reinert is a professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University in New York City. Professor Reinert specializes in the areas of civil rights law, rights of prisoners and detainees, constitutional law, employment discrimination, and criminal law.[1]
Professor Reinert received his bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1994 and his juris doctor from New York University in 1999.[1] Following law school, he clerked for Harry T. Edwards, DC Circuit Court of Appeals, followed by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.[1]
Professor Reinert conducts research in the areas of constitutional law, civil procedure, and the relationship between science and the law.[1] His articles have appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the University of Illinois Law Review, and the Benjamin N. Cardozo Law Review, among other journals.[1]
Reinert is also well known for having litigated and argued the recent 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 John Ashcroft and other high ranking governmental officials, sending Reinert and his client back to rewrite the complaint.[3] In the aftermath of the decision, Reinert wrote, "The only certainty is that there will be some resolution, and that the ride will continue to be exhausting, exhilarating, terrifying, and, ultimately, worth it."[2]