Aaron Twerski

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name = Aaron D Twerski

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caption = Aaron D Twerski
birth_date = 1940
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residence = New York, USA
citizenship = United States
ethnicity = Jew
fields = Law
workplaces = Brooklyn Law School, Hofstra University, Duquesne University School of Law, Cornell University, Harvard Law School, University of Michigan, and Boston University
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known_for = Tort and Product liability Law
awards = Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award (2007), R. Ammi Cutter Reporter Award
religion = Jewish


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Professor Aaron D. Twerski (born 1940) is a former Dean and professor of tort law at Hofstra University School of Law. He is a prolific scholar who served as co-reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of Torts Third: Products Liability, receiving the prestigious designation of "R. Ammi Cutter Reporter" for his outstanding performance. He is the author of five books and more than 70 articles in scholarly journals about torts, products liability and conflict of laws. He served as a professor at Hofstra University School of Law from 1972 to 1986 and at Brooklyn Law School from 1986 to 2005, when he became dean of Hofstra Law School. He has been appointed by Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein as one of two Special Masters to handle cases filed by workers who suffered respiratory illnesses as a result of cleaning up the World Trade Center site after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

Professor Twerski has been a visiting professor at Cornell Law School, Boston University and the University of Michigan. A teaching fellow at Harvard Law School from 1966-67, he was a trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division - Honors Program, 1965-66. He holds a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Marquette University, where he was the student editor of the Marquette Law Review. In addition, Professor Twerski has an A.B. in Talmudic Law from Beth Medrash Elyon Talmudic Research Institute and attended Ner Israel Rabbinical College. He received his Bachelor of Science in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he was a member of the Phi Eta Sigma National Honor fraternity.

He is a scion of the Chernobyl, Chabad, Sanz and Bobov Hasidic dynasties.

Retirement from deanship at Hofstra

On February 5, 2007, he announced that he intended to resign as Dean of Hofstra Law School by July 31. He attributed the resignation to his recent quadruple-bypass surgery.

He is now a professor at Brooklyn Law School where he teaches conflict of laws, product liability, and torts.

He playfully admitted his family has a history of being afraid of dogs. [Torts Lecture at BLS 4/8/08]

References

External links

* http://www.brooklaw.edu/faculty//profile/?page=169