Aaron D. Twerski

Brooklyn Law School

Irwin and Jill Cohen Professor of Law
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A Fictional Tale of Unintended Consequences : A Response to Professor Wertheimer (with James A. Henderson), 70 Brook. L. Rev. 939 (2005)

Uncertainty and Informed Choice: Unmasking Daubert (with Margaret A. Berger), 104 Mich. L. Rev. 257 (2005)

Consumer Expectations’ Last Hope : A Response to Professor Kysar (with James A. Henderson), 103 Colum. L. Rev. 1791 (2003)

Judge Jack B. Weinstein, Tort Litigation, and the Public Good: A Roundtable Discussion to Honor One of America’s Great Trial Judges on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday, 12 J.L. & Pol’y 149 (2003)

Asbestos Litigation Gone Mad : Exposure-Based Recovery for Increased Risk, Mental Distress, and Medical Monitoring (with James A. Henderson), 53 S.C. L. Rev. 815 (2002)

Drug Designs are Different (with James A. Henderson), 111 Yale L.J. 151 (2001)

Intent and Recklessness in Tort: The Practical Craft of Restating Law [Symposium: The John W. Wade Conference on the Third Restatement of Torts (with James A. Henderson), 54 Vand. L. Rev. 1133 (2001)

Intuition and Technology in Product Design Litigation: An Essay on Proximate Causation (with James A. Henderson), 88 Geo. L.J. 659 (2000)

Liability Without Cause? Further Ruminations on Cause-in-Fact as Applied to Handgun Liability (with Anthony James Sebok), 32 Conn. L. Rev. 1379 (2000)

One Size Does Not Fit All: The Third Multi-track Restatement of Conflict of Laws, 75 Ind. L.J. 667 (2000)

The Products Liability Restatement in the Courts: An Initial Assessment [Substantive U.S. and Foreign Product Liability Law] (with James A. Henderson), 27 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 7 (2000)

Product Design Liability in Oregon and the New Restatement (with James A. Henderson), 78 Or. L. Rev. 1 (1999)

The Second Revolution in Informed Consent: Comparing Physicians to Each Other (with Neil B. Cohen), 94 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1 (1999)

What Europe, Japan and Other Countries Can Learn from the New American Restatement of Products Liability (with James A. Henderson), 34 Tex. Int'l L.J. 1 (1999)

Achieving Consensus on Defective Product Design (with James A. Henderson), 83 Cornell L. Rev. 867 (1998)

The Politics of the Products Liability Restatement (with James A. Henderson), 26 Hofstra L. Rev. 667 (1998)

Arriving at Reasonable Alternative Design: The Reporters' Travelogue (with James A. Henderson), 30 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 563 (1997)

Inside the Restatement, 24 Pepp. L. Rev. 839 (1997)

A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing: Territorialism in the Guise of Interest Analysis in Cooney v. Osgood Machinery, Inc, 59 Brook. L. Rev. 1351 (1994)

Punitive Damages: Through the Five Prisms [Symposium: Punitive Damages Awards in Product Liability Litigation: Strong Medicine or Poison Pill?], 39 Vill. L. Rev. 353 (1994)

From a Reporter's Perspective: A Proposed Agenda [Symposium: The Revision of Section 402A of the Restatement Second of Torts: Occasion for Reform of Product Liability Law?], 10 Touro L. Rev. 5 (1993)

Will a New Restatement Help Settle Troubled Waters: Reflections [Symposium on Civil Justice Reform] (with James A. Henderson), 42 Am. U. L. Rev. 1257 (1993)

A Proposed Revision of Section 402A of the Restatement (Second) of Torts (with James A. Henderson), 77 Cornell L. Rev. 1512 (1992)

Comparing Medical Provider Performance: A First Look at the New Era of Medical Statistics (with Neil B. Cohen), 58 Brook. L. Rev. 5 (1992)

The Unworkability of Court-Made Enterprise Liability: A Reply to Geistfeld (with James A. Henderson), 67 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1174 (1992)

Closing the American Products Liability Frontier: The Rejection of Liability Without Defect (with James A. Henderson), 66 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1263 (1991)

Some Obvious Truths about Obvious Danger Warnings (with James A. Henderson), 19 Prod. Safety & Liab. Rep. (BNA) 877 (1991)

Star Gazing: The Future of American Products Liability Law (with James A. Henderson), 66 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1332 (1991)

Doctrinal Collapse in Products Liability: The Empty Shell of Failure to Warn (with James A. Henderson), 65 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 265 (1990)

State Choice of Law in Mass Tort Cases: A Response to 'A View from the Legislature' (with Robert A. Sedler), 73 Marq. L. Rev. 625 (1990)

The Case Against All Encompassing Federal Mass Tort Legislation: Sacrifice Without Gain (with Robert A. Sedler), 73 Marq. L. Rev. 76 (1990)

Market Share - a Tale of Two Centuries, 55 Brook. L. Rev. 869 (1989)

The Baby Swallowed the Bathwater: A Rejoinder to Professor Wright, 22 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1161 (1989)

The Joint Tortfeasor Legislative Revolt: A Rational Response to the Critics, 22 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1125 (1989)

Informed Decision-Making and the Law of Torts: The Myth of Justiciable Causation (with Neil B. Cohen), 1988 U. Ill. L. Rev. 607 (reprinted in 12 J. Prod. Liab. 133) (1988)

Caution Governs Liability Rulings: Review of New York Court of Appeals Torts Decisions in the 1986-87 Term, N.Y.L.J. (1987)

With Liberty and Justice for All: An Essay on Agent Orange and Choice of Law, 52 Brook. L. Rev. 341 (1986)

A Moderate and Restrained Federal Product Liability Bill: Targeting the Crisis Areas for Resolution, 18 U. Mich. J.L. Ref. 575 (1985)

From Risk-Utility to Consumer Expectations: Enhancing the Role of Judicial Screening in Product Liability Litigation, 11 Hofstra L. Rev. 861 (1983)

The Federal Product Liability Bill: The Professor's View, 15 Trial Law Q. 19 (1983)

National Product Liability Legislation: In Search for the Best of All Possible Worlds, 18 Idaho L. Rev. 411 (1982)

Seizing the Middle Ground Between Rules and Standards in Design Defect Litigation: Advancing Directed Verdict Practice in the Law of Tort, 57 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 521; reprinted in 6 J. Prod. Liab. 297 (1982)

In Defense of Process (with Alvin S. Weinstein, William A. Donaher, and Henry R. Piehler), 56 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 616 (1981)

On Territoriality and Sovereignty: System Shock and Constitutional Choices of Law, 10 Hofstra L. Rev. 149 (1981)

Post-Accident Design Modification Evidence in a Manufacturing Defect Setting: Strict Liability and Beyond, 4 J. Prod. Liab. 143 (1981)

Selective Use of Comparative Fault in Product Liability, 16 Trial 30 (1980)

Shifting Perspective in Product Liability: From Quality to Process Standards (with Alvin S. Weinstein, William A. Donaher, and Henry R. Piehler), 55 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 347 (1980)

Rebuilding the Citadel -- The Legislative Assault on the Common Law, 15 Trial 55 (1979)

Multistate Conflict-of-Law Rules: Continuing the Dialogue with Professors Trautman and Sedler (with R. Mayer), 7 Hofstra L. Rev. 805 (1979)

Toward a Pragmatic Solution of Choice-of-Law Problems: At the Interface of Substance and Procedure (with Renee G. Mayer), 74 Nw. U. L. Rev. 781 (1979)

A Critique of the Uniform Product Liability Law -- a Rush to Judgment (with Alvin S. Weinstein), 28 Drake L. Rev. 221 (1978)

The Many Faces of Misuse: An Inquiry into the Emerging Doctrine of Comparative Causation, 22 Trial Law. Guide 289; reprinted in 29 Mercer L. Rev. 403 (1978)

From Defect to Cause to Comparative Fault -- Rethinking Some Product Liability Concepts, 60 Marq. L. Rev. 297 (1977)

The Use and Abuse of Comparative Negligence in Products Liability, 10 Ind. L. Rev. 797 (1977)

On Reading Cramton, Currie & Kay -- Reflections and Prophecies for the Age of Interest Analysis, 61 Cornell L. Rev. 1045 (1976)

The Use and Abuse of Warnings in Products Liability -- Design Defect Litigation Comes of Age (with William A. Donaher, Henry R. Piehler, and Alvin S. Weinstein), 61 Cornell L. Rev. 495 (1976)

Products Litigation, 3 ASTM Standardization News (1975)

Product Liability and the Technical Expert, Science (1974)

From Codling to Bolm to Velez: Triptych of Confusion, 2 Hofstra L. Rev. 489 (1974)

Old Wine in a New Flask -- Restructuring Assumption of Risk in the Product Liability Era, 60 Iowa L. Rev. 1 (1974)

Product Liability: A Study of the Interaction of Law and Technology, 12 Duq. L. Rev. 425 (1974)

The Technological Expert in Products Liability Litigation, 52 Tex. L. Rev. 1303 (1974)

Neumeier v. Kuehner: Where are the Emperor's Clothes?, 1 Hofstra L. Rev. 104 (1973)

To Where Does One Attach the Horses?, 61 Ky . L.J. 393 (1973)

Choice of Law in Contracts: Some Thoughts on the Weintraub Approach, 57 Iowa L. Rev. 1239 (1972)

Debate, The Right to Treatment: Encounter and Synthesis, 10 Duq. L. Rev. 554 (1972)

Treating the Untreatable: A Critique of the Proposed Right to Treatment Law, 22 Hosp. & Community Psychiatry (1971)

Common Sense and Conflict of Laws: A Welcome Change, 38 Ins. Counsel. J. 339 (1971)

A Return to Jurisdictional Due Process: The Case for the Vanishing Defendant, 8 Duq. L. Rev. 220; reprinted in 37 Ins. Couns. J. 265 (1970)

Court Scrutiny of Medical Commitment: Collusion on Delusion, 118 Pitt. Legal J. 10 (1970)

Enlightened Territorialism and Professor Cavers: The Pennsylvania Method, 9 Duq. L. Rev. 373 (1970)

Treating the Untreatable: A Critique of the Proposed Pennsylvania Right to Treatment Law, 9 Duq. L. Rev. 220 (1970)

Commentary, An Ode to Rejection, 7 Duq. L. Rev. 258, stud. case note in Marq. L. Rev. (1964-65) (1968)

The Independent Doctrine of Ratification v. the Restatement and Mr. Seavey, 42 Temp. L.Q. 1 (1968)

Books

Products Liabililty: Problems and Process (with James A. Henderson) (2008)

Torts: Cases and Materials (with Henderson J.) (2008)

Products Liability : Problems and Process (with James A. Henderson) (2004)

Torts : Cases and Materials (with James A. Henderson) (2003)

Products Liability : Problems and Process (with James A. Henderson) (2000)

Restatement of the Law, Third : Torts : Products Liability (with James A. Henderson) (1998)

Products Liability : Problems and Process (with James A. Henderson) (1997)

Restatement of the Law, Third : Torts : Products Liability. Proposed Final Draft (April 1, 1997) (with James A. Henderson) (1997)

Restatement of the Law, Third : Torts : Products Liability. Proposed Final Draft (Preliminary Version) (1996) (with James A. Henderson) (1996)

Restatement of the Law, Third, Torts : Products Liability. Tentative Drafts (with James A. Henderson) (1994)

Products Liability : Problems and Process (with James A. Henderson) (1992)

Products Liability : Problems and Process (with James A. Henderson) (1987)

A Summary Analysis of Conflict of Laws (1978)

Products Liability and the Reasonable Safe Product (with Alvin S. Weinstein) (1978)

Cases on Products Liability (1974)

Cases on Products Liability (1972)

Cases on Products Liability (1972)

Contributions to Books

Comparative Negligence and Conflict of Laws, Comparative Negligence (1994)

Unpublished Papers

The Cleaver, the Violin and the Scalpel: An Essay on Duty and the Third Restatement of Torts, ExpressO (2008)

The article takes issue with the approach taken by Third Restatement of Torts Proposed Final...