As an associate at Koob & Magoolaghan, Professor Reinert focused on prisoners’ rights, employment discrimination and disability rights. At Cardozo, he conducts research in the areas of constitutional law, civil procedure and criminal law. He was recently voted best first year professor for the 2011–2012 school year by the Cardozo Student Bar Association. “Part of the reason I find teaching rewarding but extremely challenging is because of the great teachers I have had in my life. One of the stories I tell my students is about when Professor (now dean of NYU School of Law) Ricky Revesz had me on call in Administrative Law for what seemed like 10 minutes, asking me to find ways to distinguish a number of different Supreme Court cases. Every answer I provided was met with the rejoinder, ‘But what about this ...?’ Finally, when I felt like I was about to fold my tent and give up, Professor Revesz said ‘Yes, I think you’re right; they can’t be distinguished.’” “This experience informs my teaching because my goal is to help my students realize, by the end of each class, that they understand much more about the cases than they thought they did walking into each class. That was what Professor Revesz was doing with me, and I remember it clearly to this day. It is what continues to excite me about teaching–the possibility that something will ‘click’ for students at some point in my class and that I will have played some role in making that connection.”
Alexander Reinert
Associate Professor of Law
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