received the William L. Prosser Award from the Association of American Law Schools. He also received the Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award from the American Bar Association's Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section. 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. External links "Aaron Twerski; Irwin and Jill Cohen Professor of Law" References 1939 births Living people Lawyers from Milwaukee American legal scholars Deans of law schools in the United States University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee alumni American Hasidic rabbis Beth Medrash Elyon alumni Cornell University faculty Boston University faculty Brooklyn Law School faculty Marquette University Law School alumni Harvard Law School faculty University of Michigan faculty Descendants of the Baal Shem Tov Conflict of laws scholars Jewish American academics American academic administrators