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Pan Am 103 College of Law Collection

An inventory of the collection at the Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives at Syracuse University

Finding aid created by: Rachael Signy and Diana Chavez
Date: 2013

Revision history:
Mar 2015	Errors corrected; stylistic changes (VSOM)
Apr 2015	Updated to include recent additions (VSOM)
Feb 2018	Stylistic changes (VSOM)
Mar 2025	Materials added to folders: Lockerbie Trial Families Project Website - Publicity, Research - Pan Am 103 Remembrance Scholarships and Research - Settlement and victims' families compensation. New folders added: Biographies - Arzt, Donna E., Research - Lockerbie Conference, and Research - Timeline of parallel legal developments. Stylistic changes made. (AES)

Historical Note

The Syracuse University College of Law is an American Bar Association accredited law school founded in 1895. During the 2000-2002 trial of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifah Fhimah, the individuals charged with the December 21, 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the College of Law played a vital role in keeping the families of the 270 victims updated on the proceedings. Through funding provided by the U.S Department of Justice Office of Victims of Crime, the College of Law created and managed The Lockerbie Trial Families Project website. This password-protected website offered daily information on the courtroom proceedings at Camp van Zeist in the Netherlands.

Donna E. Arzt (1954-2008) was a Dean's Distinguished Research Scholar and Professor of Law at Syracuse University's College of Law. Arzt founded and directed the Lockerbie Trial Families Project at Syracuse University. During her time at Syracuse, she served as the director of the Center for Global Law and Practice and founded and directed the Sierra Leone Project, where faculty and students assisted the Office of the Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which was established by the United Nations and the country's government at the end of the decade-long Sierra Leone civil war.

Scope and Content Note

The Pan Am 103 College of Law Collection contains 8 series: Biographies, Book reviews, Clippings, Lockerbie trial, Lockerbie Trial Families Project website, Memorabilia, and Research.

Biographies details the careers of Donna E. Arzt, Norman McFadyen, Kathryn M. Turman and Michael Scharf.

Book reviews includes reviews on publications regarding the Lockerbie Air Disaster.

Clippings contains American and European newspaper articles. The dates range from December 1988 to October 2005.

Lockerbie trial includes transcripts and related notes and articles from the trial of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifah Fhimah that ran from May 3, 2000 to January 31, 2001 and the appeal of Megrahi from January 23, 2002 to March 14, 2002. The series is missing Trial Day 63.

Lockerbie Trial Families Project website contains information regarding the creation and maintenance of the website. Grant reports are included as well as correspondence with the victims' families and board members. There is also information on Donna Arzt's visit to Camp van Zeist in the Netherlands.

Memorabilia contains stickers and poetry commemorating the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, materials from the 1998 Act of Remembrance for the victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing at Westminster Abbey, and a commemorative mousepad for the Lockerbie Trial Families Project website.

Media broadcast transcripts contains transcripts of NPR and CNBC broadcasts.

Research contains information regarding national and international judicial systems, the investigation of the Pan Am 103 bombing, the town of Lockerbie's reaction to and recovery from the disaster, United States and international airline security, biographical information on the Pan Am 103 victims, and relevance of the September 11th and Oklahoma City terror attacks.

Restrictions

Access Restrictions:

Please note that the collection is housed off-site, and advance notice is required to allow time to have the materials brought to the Reading Room on campus.

Use Restrictions:

Written permission must be obtained from the Pan Am Flight 103 Archives and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

The Lockerbie Trials Family Project CDs may not be duplicated for anyone other than family members on the Department of Justice Approved list or members, current and past, of Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, Inc. executive board.

Related Material

The Pan Am Flight 103 Archives contains additional materials and information related to the Pan Am 103 College of Law Collection. Related collections include:

Lockerbie Collection

Pan Am Flight 103 Audiovisual Collection

Pan Am Flight 103 Publications Collection

Richard A. Marquise Papers

Courtney L. Tucker Aviation Security Papers

Pan Am Flight 103 Story Archives Collection

Pan Am 103 Clippings Collection

Selected Search Terms

Names

Arzt, Donna.
Syracuse University -- College of Law.
Syracuse University -- History.
Syracuse University.

Subjects

Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Incident, 1988.
Terrorism -- Government Policy -- United States -- Case Studies.
Terrorism -- Government Policy -- United States -- History.
Terrorism -- Government Policy -- United States.
Terrorism -- History -- 20th Century.
Lockerbie (Scotland)

Types of Material

Clippings (information artifacts)
Compact discs.
Correspondence.
Memorabilia.
Transcripts.

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Pan Am 103 College of Law Collection,
Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives
Syracuse University Libraries

Acquisition Information

Gift of Donna Arzt and the Syracuse University College of Law in 2002. Additional materials were transferred from Syracuse University's College of Law Library in 2012, 2015, and 2018.

Processing Information

Materials were placed in acid-free folders and acid-free boxes.

Arrangement

Materials are arranged alphabetically.

Table of Contents

Biographies

Clippings

Correspondence

Lockerbie trial

Lockerbie Trial Families Project website

Media broadcast transcripts

Memorabilia

Research

Inventory

	Lockerbie trial
Box 3		Appeals 10 February 2002–12 September 2002
Box 3		Case proceedings 2000–2004 undated
Box 3		Days 1-9 transcripts 3-24 May 2000 (9 folders)
Box 4		Days 10-13 transcripts 25 May 2000-1 Jun 2000 (4 folders)
Box 5		Days 14-17 transcripts 2-7 June 2000 (4 folders)
Box 6		Days 18-22 transcripts 8-16 June 2000 (5 folders)
Box 7		Days 23-27 transcripts 19-23 June 2000 (5 folders)
Box 8		Days 28-32 transcripts 27 June 2000-12 July 2000 (5 folders)
Box 9		Days 33-36 transcripts 14-19 July 2000 (4 folders)
Box 10		Days 37-43 transcripts 20 July 2000-24 August 2000 (7 folders)
Box 11		Days 44-51 transcripts 25 August 2000-27 September 2000 (8 folders)
Box 12		Days 52-57 transcripts 28 September 2000-6 October 2000 (6 folders)
Box 13		Days 58-67 transcripts 9 October 2000-10 November 2000 (9 folders)
Box 14		Days 68-72 transcripts 14-20 November 2000 (5 folders)
Box 15		Days 73-79 transcripts 21 November 2000-10 January 2001 (7 folders)
Box 16		Days 80-86 transcripts 11-31 January 2001 (7 folders)  Day 86 trial transcript
Box 17		Key trial transcripts: 11 July 2000-5 December 2000
Box 17		Libyan reform 4 December 1998-27 February 2003
Box 17		Libyan sanctions 25 November 1991-9 February 2001, undated
Box 17		Mr. Keen's case argument for Megrahi and Fhimah 28 November 2000
Box 17		Pan Am 103 families civil litigation 1989-2002, undated
Box 18		Trial appeal days 1-5 transcripts 23-28 January 2002 (5 folders)
Box 19		Trial appeal days 6-11 transcripts 29 January 2002-7 February 2002 (6 folders)
Box 20		Trial appeal days 12-15 transcripts 8-14 February 2002 (4 folders)
Box 20		Trial appeal flow chart 1June 1991-16 May 2001, undated
Box 20		Trial appeal research 1995-2001, undated
Box 20		Trial statistics 20 January 2001-15 March 2007, undated
Box 20		Verdict 3 February 2001-8 October 2004, undated