Allan Gerson

Allan Gerson was an international lawyer, widely recognized as the first American attorney to successfully sue a foreign government for complicity in acts of terrorism. He wrote The Price of Terror: How the Families of Pan Am 103 Brought Libya to Justice (with Jerry Adler), and The Kirkpatrick Mission: Diplomacy Without Apology, documenting the years as senior counsel to the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. He also was a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Council on Foreign Relations, and a distinguished professor of international law at George Mason University. He died on December 1, 2019.