Alexander A. Reinert

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.

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. 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.

Personal life He is married to fellow Cardozo professor Betsy Ginsberg.