Allan GersonALLAN GERSON, a maverick international lawyer, was widely recognized as the first American attorney to successfully sue a foreign government for complicity in acts of terrorism. He chronicled his groundbreaking work in The Price of Terror: How the Failies of Pan Am 103 Brought Libya to Justice (with Jerry Adler). Among Dr. Gerson's other books is 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. Dr. Gerson learned a J.D. at NYU Law School (1969), an LL.M from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1972), and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School (1976). He was married to the cookbook author Joan Nathan, and was the father of three children. Dr. Gerson died on December 1, 2019. Read More Read Less