Biography

Professor Rubenstein teaches Civil Procedure, Immigration Law, and Administrative Law. His scholarship focuses on the balance of government powers in the creation of immigration policy, and has been published in the Harvard Journal on Legislation and in 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 at King & Spalding, 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 cases of first impression before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. After his tenure at the United States Attorney's Office, he clerked in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (Sotomayor, J.) and in the District Court for the Southern District of New York (Jones, J.).

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