Perhaps the most direct lesson is how time-consuming such an undertaking in fact is. While our web-site's audience is relatively small and quite discrete, it is without doubt a critical and vocal group, and so we've also had to learn humility. The Lockerbie trial is unprecedented in so many ways. Without doubt, it will also set future precedents. Among them will most certainly be the use of the world wide web to communicate with the victims of a mass transnational crime who are as widely dispersed as in this case.
Law schools are undoubtedly in an ideal position to provide such a service.
One of the best sites is by the Lockerbie Trial Briefing Unit from the University of Glasgow School of Law. Pan Am Lockerbie Trial page. I have taught International Criminal Law and in my International Law course I cover the Lockerbie litigation in the International Court of Justice . My own personal connection to the case is that December 1988 was the end of my first semester of teaching at Syracuse. Like so many others, I still remember exactly where I was when I first heard that 35 of our undergrads had died in the explosion.