Taking Terrorism to Court

According to her colleagues, Anne-Marie Lund-Kagy '91 was the "brains of the operation ation" that convinced a U.S. District Court that a foreign government was re- sponsible for supporting terrorist activities. In a landmark decision earlier this year Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered the Iranian government to pay $247.5 million in dam- ages to the family of a man killed in a 1995 terrorist bombing in Israel.

While writing Briefs in support of the Case Lurtd-Kagy kept in mind her own near-miss with terrorism. Original plans for returning from an FSP term in Salamanca in 1988 puther on the ill-fated Pan Am Flight 103 out of Frankfurt. Lund-Kagy took another flight instead. She says she often remembers that her name could have been on the list of American victims.

Lund-Kagy's recent win may help some of the families of those victims. The ruling has sparked similar cases throughput the country, including suits By families of Pan Am Flight 103 victims against- Libya.

Meanwhile, Lund-Kagy is applying her background in international law to aiding other victims: She is helping American Holocaust survivors prepare pare claims for compensation against Germany.

This terrorist bombing led to LundKagy's Courtroom victory.