Professor Allan's scholarly work focuses on the legal and pragmatic issues of
international terrorism. His recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Terrorism
& Political Violence, the Journal of Low Intensity Conflict, and Crime & Justice
International. He is the author of Eurabia: A Threat to the United States? (2007), The
Failure to Recognize Civil Rights: Political Violence/Terrorism (1994), International
Bounty Hunting (1994), and New World Order Brings Chaos & Crime in Eastern Europe
(1993). He is also the author of Terrorism: Pragmatic International Deterrence and
Cooperation (1990), New York Divorce, Maintenance & Child Custody (1988) and Family
Law Cases and Materials (6th ed. 2005). He has chaired and co-chaired conferences and
presented papers extensively in Europe and the United States on a wide range of topics
related to international terrorism, violence, and civil rights. He has served as a
governmental advisor on issues of international terrorism, and is the Distinguished
Scholar at the Center for Security and Counter-Terrorism Policy, and the American Scholar
in Residence at the East-West Institute, a think tank whose focus is Central and Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union. He is on the Editorial Board of Crime & Justice
International. Before joining the faculty in 1973, he was in private practice, a
prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney's office, and a producer/director with
CBS television