Allan Gerson, Chairman of the Gerson International Law Group, a firm that handles leading antiterrorism cases and specializes in complex cases of international law.

Blog Entries by Allan Gerson

The Unthinkable Happened on July 28th

Posted October 20, 2009 | 04:02 PM (EST)


This eyewitness account by a victim of Iraqi brutality against defenseless Iranian dissidents in Iraq is must reading -- on both humanitarian and national interest grounds.

By Mostafa Sanaie


Ashraf, Iraq

On October 7, as the sun came up and I sat in my...

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Specter of Forced Repatriation

12 Comments | Posted October 15, 2009 | 04:01 PM (EST)


Death no longer stalks the White House gates. The hunger strike of more than two dozen Iranian-Americans (as part of a vigil of hundreds of concerned people) came to a close Thursday with the news that 36 Iranian dissidents forcibly taken by Iraqi forces had been allowed to return --...

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Proportionality and Disproportionality: A Guide to Arguments about Gaza

Posted January 7, 2009 | 04:53 PM (EST)


A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas seems imminent, although how long it will last is anyone's guess. One thing is fairly certain: even as the guns fall silent the charges and counter-charges of violations of international law will continue. Already the airwaves are full of talk that Israel's "disproportionate"...

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Would Ronald Reagan's Jeane Kirkpatrick Have Voted for Barack Obama?

Posted October 14, 2008 | 04:20 PM (EST)


Speaking for anyone from the grave carries risks -- especially if one portends to represent the views of the late Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ronald Reagan's "combative" representative to the United Nations. Still, Jeane Kirkpatrick was a writer, a professor, and an intellectual of the first magnitude. She would have preferred, I...

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Are Ex-Presidents Above the Law?

Posted May 6, 2008 | 04:12 PM (EST)


When I was a U.S. government prosecutor during the Carter Administration, the first thing we came to understand is that the rule of law requires the equal application of the law. Today, in the wake of former President Carter's unauthorized talks with Hamas leaders, the issue is whether our laws...

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Giving Libby the Benefit of the Doubt

Posted November 1, 2005 | 11:57 AM (EST)


Libby is one of the nicest and smartest guys that I have ever worked with. But that was years ago when he was out of government. Being in an Administration that is under attack, where you feel you have been sabotaged by your own (Wilson), can do strange things to...

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US Federal Court: Corporations, Foreign or Domestic, Can be Held Liable for Complicity in Genocide

Posted June 15, 2005 | 08:55 PM (EST)


Amazingly, it took a federal court ruling, just last Monday, to make clear that corporations can't get away with murder, including aiding and abetting.

To be sure, American corporations have increasingly been held liable for damages to victims of lung cancer from improper sale and marketing of cigarettes without...

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