Aaron Twerski

He is a scion of the Chernobyl, Chabad, Sanz, and Bobov Hasidic dynasties. He and his twin brother Rabbi Michel Twerski were the youngest sons of Rabbi Jacob Israel Twerski (1899-1973) and Rebbetzin Dvorah Leah Twerski (1900-1995). He was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,[1] where his father was the rabbi of Congregation Beth Jehudah. Aaron Twerski is the younger brother of the late Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski (1930-2021), a psychiatrist and author of 55 books on Judaism and self-image.[2] His twin brother is now the rabbi of Congregation Beth Jehudah.

He has been married to Kreindel Twerski since 1960. They live in Brooklyn, New York.[3]

Twerski has an A.B. in Talmudic Law from Beth Medrash Elyon Talmudic Research Institute (1962), and attended Ner Israel Rabbinical College.[4] He received his Bachelor of Science in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (1970),[4] where he was a member of the Phi Eta Sigma National Honor fraternity. He holds a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Marquette University Law School (1965), where he was the student editor of the Marquette Law Review.[4][3] He received the Marquette Law School Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.[3]

He was a trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division - Honors Program, 1965-66, and a teaching fellow at Harvard Law School from 1966–67. Twerski has been a visiting professor at Cornell Law School, Boston University, and the University of Michigan.

He has been a professor since 1986 at Brooklyn Law School, where he is the Irwin and Jill Cohen Professor of Law of Law and teaches conflict of laws, product liability, and torts.[5][3] He served as Dean of Hofstra University School of Law beginning in 2005.[3] In 2017 he left Hofstra Law School and returned to Brooklyn Law School.[6][7]

He is the author of six books and more than 80 articles in scholarly journals about torts, products liability, and conflict of laws.[3] 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 received the William L. Prosser Award from the Association of American Law Schools.[3] He also received the Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award from the American Bar Association's Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section.[8]

He was 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.[3]

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