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Professor Twerski Honored with ABA’s Robert B. McKay Award

On August 12, 2007, the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section presented the 2007 Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award to Professor Aaron D. Twerski. The award was presented during the ABA’s annual meeting in San Francisco.



Read the National
Law Journal
article
adapted from Professor Twerski's ABA speech.


The Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award recognizes law professors who are committed to the advancement of justice, scholarship and the legal profession in the fields of tort and insurance law. Other distinguished recipients of the award include Richard A. Posner, an influential judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School; and the late Charles Alan Wright, an authority on constitutional law and federal procedure who taught at the University of Texas School of Law and authored the well-known treatise Federal Practice and Procedure.

Professor Twerski, a preeminent authority in the areas of product liability and tort law, has contributed to the fields through his service as both a scholar and a teacher. His publications include dozens of law review articles as well as books on torts and product liability law. He was named the R. Ammi Cutter Reporter for his outstanding work as co-reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law (Third) Torts: Products Liability, published in 1998. His most recent articles were published in the Yale Law Journal, Cornell Law Review and the Georgetown Law Journal. He is co-author of the leading textbook, Products Liability: Problems and Process as well as Torts, Cases and Materials, with Cornell Law School professor James A. Henderson Jr.

Professor Twerski recently returned to Brooklyn Law School after having served as dean of Hofstra University School of Law. He began teaching at Brooklyn Law School in 1986. He served as professor of law at Hofstra from 1972 to 1986 and as interim dean from 1977 to 1978, and he has also taught at Duquesne University, Cornell, Boston University, and the University of Michigan law schools. He is special counsel to the law firm of Herzfeld and Rubin.

The ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section is a national professional group that brings together more than 36,000 plaintiffs’ lawyers, defense lawyers and insurance and corporate counsel to exchange information and ideas.

Read more about the ABA’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section .

Read more about Professor Twerski.



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