The Bombing of Pan Am 103: Ten Years Later

Participants

Panel 1: The Prosecution Of Pan Am 103 Before International Tribunals

Christopher C. Joyner is Professor of Government at Georgetown University,
where he teaches courses on international law and organizations, U.S. foreign
policy, and global environmental law. Selected for inclusion in Who's Who in
America 1998 as an international legal educator, Joyner received the Edmund A.
Walsh medal for teaching excellence in 1997 from Georgetown University's
School of Foreign Service. He is presently on the Executive Council of the
American Society of International Law and was also elected to its Executive
Committee. From 1989-1994, he served as Director of the ASIL's Project on the
United Nations and the International Legal Order, sponsored by the Ford
Foundation. He is co-editor of United Nations Legal Order (Cambridge
University Press, 1995), the two-volume product of that research effort
involving 20 scholars worldwide, and is editor of/contributor to its revision,
The United Nations and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 1997). 
Joyner is a well known authority on international politics concerning
Antarctica and ocean law, and is often an expert commentator for CNN, USIA,
National Public Radio and USA Today on issues concerning U.S. foreign policy,
the United Nations, the Middle East, human rights and terrorism. Currently
Chair of the International Law Section of the International Studies
Association, Joyner is a frequent consultant for the United Nations, the
Center for Naval Analyses, the Foreign Service Institute, the U.S. Department
of State, the National Defense University, the Inter-American Defense College,
and numerous other public and private organizations. 

Sean Murphy is Associate Professor of Law at the George Washington University
Law School.  From 1995-1998, he was Counselor for Legal Affairs, U.S. Embassy,
the Hague, the Netherlands where he argued before the International Court of
Justice. His responsibilities included work on the Lockerbie case.  At the
same time, Murphy served as U.S. representative to the International Criminal
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. From 1987 to 1995, Murphy worked as an
attorney-advisor in the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State.
An award winning scholar, Murphy was awarded the American Society for
International Law’s 1997 Certificate for Preeminent Contribution to Creative
Scholarship for his book Humanitarian Intervention: The United Nations in an
Evolving World Order.  Murphy also received the American Bar Association’s
1996 Outstanding Younger Federal Lawyer Award.  His extensive legal
credentials include degrees from Columbia University (J.D. 1985), University
of Cambridge (LL.M. 1987), and the University of Virginia (S.J.D. 1995).

Robert Macaire is the First Secretary in the British Embassy in Washington,
D.C. and responsible for Middle Eastern and Counter Terrorism affairs.  He
assumed his post in November 1998.  Previously he has worked in the British
Ministry of Defence (on Counter-terrorism and other issues), and in the
Foreign Office in London dealing with the Middle East Peace Process, the
Levant countries, southern Africa, and South Atlantic issues.  His previous
overseas posting was in Bucharest, Romania.

Michael J. Matheson is the Principal Deputy Legal Advisor of the U.S.
Department of States.  As such, he is the senior career attorney in an office
of approximately 120 lawyers who give advice to the policy officials of the
State Department and other U.S. government agencies on international and other
legal aspects of the department’s work.  Among other duties, Matheson has
represented the United States before international tribunals in a number of
cases, including the Lockerbie case, before the International Court of
Justice.  He has served often as Acting Legal Adviser of the Department, most
recently from June 1996 - September 1997, and in that capacity as Member of
the Permanent Court of Arbitration and Chairman of the State Department
Advisory Committee on Public International Law.  Matheson has received a
number of awards, including the Presidential Distinguished and Meritorious
Executive Awards, the Outstanding Federal Lawyer of the Year Award from the
Federal Bar Association, and the Outstanding Government International Lawyer
Award from the American Bar Association.

Panel 2: Combating International Terrorism: Military, Diplomatic and
International Efforts

Anthony Clark Arend is Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown
University. He is also an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown
University Law Center. Prior to coming to Georgetown, he was a Senior Fellow
at the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia School
of Law.  Dr. Arend's main research interests are in the areas of international
law and international organization. He is especially interested in
international law relating to the use of force and international legal
philosophy. He recently finished co-editing and contributing to a book
entitled International Rules: Approaches from International Law and
International Relations for Oxford University Press. His previous publications
include International Law and the Use of Force: Beyond the United Nations
Charter Paradigm (co-author) and The United States and  the Compulsory
Jurisdiction  of the International Court of Justice (editor and contributor).
Dr. Arend's teaching interests are in the areas of international law,
international organization, international relations, international legal
philosophy, and constitutional law of United States foreign relations.    

Allen Gerson is Senior Fellow for International Organizations and Law at the
Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Gerson served as Counsel from 1981-1985 to
Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick when she headed the U.S. Mission to the United
Nations, and later to General Vernon Walters, her successor.  He served as
Deputy Assistant Attorney General with responsibility for international and
national security affairs under President Ronald Reagan from 1985-1987.  He
was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Distinguished
Professor of International Law and Transactions at George Mason University,
and the Executive Director of the Morocco-U.S. Council on Trade and Investment
in Washington.  He has also maintained a private law practice and, along with
attorney Mark S. Zaid, brought the first civil action against the Government
of Libya on behalf of Bruce Smith for the bombing of Pan Am 103.  Gerson is
the author of several books and a graduate of the New York University School
of Law.  He also received a master’s degree from the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem Law Faculty and a doctorate in international law from Yale
University.

Neil C. Livingstone is Co-Chairman and CEO of GlobalOptions LLC, a
Washington-based crisis management firm, serving as a “corporate equalizer” on
a wide variety of unique issues.  In addition he is an author, lecturer, and
frequent media commentator on terrorism, intelligence, and national security
issues.  Livingstone served for nearly ten years as an Adjunct Professor in
Georgetown University’s National Security Studies Program and as President of
the Institute on Terrorism and Subnational Conflict.  He has served on
advisory panels to the Secretary of State, the Chief of Naval Operations, and
the Pentagon.  He has testified before Congress and the Vice President’s Task
Force for Combating Terrorism.  Livingstone is the author of nine books and
more than 180 articles, monographs, and book chapters.

Jay Coupe presently serves as the Chief of Staff of the State Department
Accountability Review Boards investigating the U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya
and Tanzania. He is the president of Coupe Associates, an international public
affairs and policy consulting firm with clients in the United States, Europe
an Asia. Coupe is also the Senior Advisor, Crisis Communications, to
GlobalOptions. During a 26-year naval career, Coupe specialized in public and
political affairs, working in major Washington agencies and joint and Allied
Commands in Vietnam, the Republic of China, the Federal Republic of Germany
and Italy. From 1983-86, he was the Director of Public Affairs for all U.S.
Forces in Europe, and was Assistant and Spokesman for Admiral William J.
Crowe, Jr., when Crowe was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from
1986-88. On his retirement from active service in 1988, Coupe was awarded the
nation’s highest peacetime military honor, the Defense Distinguished Service
Medal. He graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in English
literature in 1962 and received a Master’s Degree in Public Communications
from Boston University in 1971. 

Panel 3: Family Reflections and Government Response to Victims of Terrorism

Francis J. Duggan served as the Liaison to the Families of Pan Am 103 on the
1989 President’s Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism.  He  is an
international lawyer and lobbyist, who served on the Legal Committee of the
family organization, Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, Inc.  Duggan has held a
number of senior government positions in the Executive Department, including
Assistant Secretary of Labor and Senior Legislative Manager for Enforcement at
the Treasury Department.  He has also received two political science graduate
fellowships and has worked in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the
U.S. Senate.  He is an officer and board member of the Washington Foreign Law
Society and is with the law firm of Mullenholz, Brimsek and Belair in
Washington DC.

George Williams and his wife Judy lost their son only son, Geordie, in the
bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.  Williams, a former
Marine who served in the Korean War, has been president of the Victims of Pan
Am Flight 103, Inc. for the past three years. Most recently he served on the
Presidential Commission on Aviation Safety and Security [Gore Commission],
which was formed in the aftermath of the TWA800 crash.

Bruce Smith is a retired Pan American Airways Captain. He lost his wife,
Ingrid, in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. In the wake of the disaster, he
was involved in establishing the Terrorist Reward Program with the State
Department and obtaining matching funds from the Air Transport Association and
the Airline Pilots Association for aviation-related acts of terrorism. In
1993, he filed the first civil action against the Government of Libya and its
agents in for damages related to  for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. As a
result of this litigation, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act was amended to
permit victims of terrorism, including from Pan Am Flight 103, to file suit in
the United States against terrorist states. Smith has appeared on numerous
television programs and has written many newspaper op-eds pressing his cause
against the Libyan Government.

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Panel 4: The Case of Pan Am 103: A 10 Year Overview

Mark Zaid is is a solo practitioner in Washington, D.C. specializing in
litigation and lobbying on matters relating to international transactions,
torts and crimes, national security, foreign sovereign and diplomatic immunity
and the Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts (FOI/PA). Zaid is also the
Executive Director of the James Madison Project (JMP), a D.C.-based,
non-profit organization with the primary purpose of educating the public on
issues relating to intelligence gathering and operations, secrecy policies,
national security and government wrongdoing. Mr. Zaid has served as legal
counsel to the families of the Pan Am 103 bombing against the Government of
Libya since 1993 and, along with attorney Allan Gerson, he filed the first
lawsuit against the Government of Libya on behalf of Bruce Smith for the
bombing. He was also a primary draftsman of the 1996 legislative amendment to
the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act that now permits victims of terrorism to
pursue civil litigation against terrorist states and which serves as the
primary basis for the civil actions against the Government of Libya. Mr. Zaid
is a frequent commentator on matters of terrorism, war crimes, national
security and government accountability.

Douglas E. Rosenthal specializes in domestic and international competition and
regulatory law and international commercial litigation, civil and criminal,
mergers, joint ventures and trade regulation.  His clients include Fortune 500
manufacturers, U.S. and foreign companies, high technology, financial services
and transportation companies, foreign governments, and other foreign and
domestic enterprises and associations. He is a leading expert in North America
on extraterritorial application of national law and related questions of
national court jurisdiction over international events.  He has been on
retainer to the Government of Canada for advice in this area over the past 15
years.  He has filed briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Canada and
the United Kingdom on issues of U.S. jurisdiction.  He has served as an expert
witness on U.S. foreign relations law in four litigations -- three of them in
foreign jurisdictions.  He has been lead litigator or co-counsel in
approximately 20 significant international litigations.  He is currently
acting as lead counsel, along with attorneys Allan Gerson and Mark S. Zaid,
representing 44 family members of victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
His team played a major role in passage of legislation denying sovereign
immunity to terrorist states, and he is a member of the plaintiffs' committee
which has just successfully opposed Libya's motion to dismiss these suits on
jurisdictional and Constitutional grounds.

Michel F. Baumeister founded Baumeister & Samuels, P.C. as a specialty
litigation firm devoted to the representation of families and victims of
aviation accident disasters. Over the last 25 years, he has handled hundreds
of aviation accident cases involving both international and domestic airline
mass disasters as well as general aviation and military accidents.  Baumeister
recently served as a committee member and primary trial attorney for the Pan
Am Flight 103 disaster. The holder of a commercial pilot’s license, Baumeister
received his J.D. from Seton Hall University Law School.  In 1978, he earned
an LL.M. in International Law from New York University School of Law.  He is a
Contributing Editor on aviation law to the New Jersey Law Journal, a member of
the Editorial Board of the Aviation Litigation Reporter, and Adjunct Professor
of Aviation Law at Seton Hall University.

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