Biography

Professor Rubenstein teaches Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Legal Ethics, and Civil Procedure. He clerked for the Hon. Sonia Sotomayor when she was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and prior to that, clerked for the Hon. Barbara Jones in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Professor Rubenstein’s scholarship focuses on the balance of government powers in immigration and administrative law. His publications have appeared or are forthcoming in the William & Mary Law Review, Harvard Journal on Legislation, and the Administrative Law Review.

Professor Rubenstein graduated with distinction from Hofstra Law School in 1998 and was an editor of the Law Review. Following law school, Professor Rubenstein worked for five years as an associate in King & Spalding’s New York office, where he represented major corporate clients in a wide array of commercial litigation matters. Professor Rubenstein then served for three years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District New York, specializing in immigration matters. As an AUSA, Professor Rubenstein handled cases involving national security and argued several issues of first impression before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

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