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Dean Joan G. Wexler has announced the naming of Brooklyn Law School Professors Aaron Twerski and Anita Bernstein to faculty chairs. A new faculty chair, the Irwin and Jill Cohen Professor of Law, was awarded to Professor Aaron Twerski, a preeminent authority in the areas of products liability and tort law. In August 2007, the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section presented him with the 2007 Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award in recognition of his commitment to the advancement of justice, scholarship and the legal profession in the fields of tort and insurance law. The author of numerous law review articles and leading textbooks, Professor Twerski 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. Professor Twerski began teaching at Brooklyn Law School in 1986. He returned to the Law School in Fall 2007 after serving as the dean of Hofstra University School of Law. The generous gift of Irwin B. Cohen ’58 and his wife Jill made possible the establishment of the new chair. Cohen is an independent real estate developer who has dedicated his career to creating environments of public and private utility, examples of which can be found in New York City and Philadelphia. His next project, planned for the South Bronx, will create the largest ethnic food market in the United States. Cohen’s work has been honored with many accolades, and he was deemed an Honorary Deputy U.S. Marshal for his assistance in rebuilding for the Marshals Service after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City. In 2006, he received a BLS Alumni of the Year Award. Professor Anita Bernstein, who joined Brooklyn Law School in 2007, is the new Anita and Stuart Subotnick Professor of Law. Professor Bernstein held faculty chairs at both Emory University School of Law and New York Law School prior to coming to the Law School. She teaches and writes primarily on tort law and also focuses on feminist jurisprudence, professional responsibility, and products liability. A prolific author whose works include books such as Marriage Proposals: Questioning a Legal Status (editor, New York University Press 2006), and Torts: Questions & Answers (with David P. Leonard) (Lexis Publishing 2004), Professor Bernstein was awarded the first Fulbright research award in European Union affairs given to a law professor. Professor Bernstein’s chair is supported by Stuart Subotnick ’68, chairman of the Board of Trustees at Brooklyn Law School, and his wife Anita. A longtime supporter of the Law School, Subotnick is the chief operating officer of Metromedia Company, one of the largest private companies in the United States, which holds interests in telecommunications, restaurants, and energy companies. The Subotnick Center, where the Law School hosts many of its symposia and other events, is named for him, as is the school’s Stuart and Anita Subotnick Foundation Scholarship. The Subotnicks also made a major contribution to the construction of Feil Hall, the high-rise residence hall completed in 2005.
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