written word: he authored commentaries on domestic as well as international legal topics, including in The New York Law Journal; Op-Ed essays on political, legal, and social issues of the day for his blog Contrary Views; and magazine articles covering literature and art (also an artist, Deyan's paintings were shown in galleries in the early sixties). Deyan was Editor and Publisher of The Foothills News (CT); Editor-at-Large for The Country and Abroad''; and Contributing-Editor for the publications Passport (US), Scrisul Romanesc (Romania), Pecat (Serbia), Britic (UK) and Ekurd Daily (Kurdish). He also self-published three books—Letters from America: Essays with a New York State of Mind (2013), Contrary Views: Columns from the Litchfield County Times (2003–2014), and Dispatches (2017). His is survived by his wife, Patricia Tunsky-Brashich of New York, NY and their daughter, Arianna Evers (Tunsky-Brashich) of Washington, DC (Austin, Hudson, and Sienna). With his first wife, Catherine Sidor of Greenwich, Connecticut, he had two daughters Alexis Morledge (Brashich) of New York (Louis Sr., Louis Jr., and Alexander) and Audrey Sjöholm (Brashich) of Vancouver, BC (Christopher, Oliver, and Felix). He took great interest in the development of his grandchildren. He is also survived by his older brother, Neboysha R. Brashich of Cutchogue, New York (Prunella, Alexander, and Nicholas). Legal career Admitted to the New York Bar in 1966, Brashich was a litigator. He recovered purloined art – Constantin Brâncuși's The Muse; he represented the politically jailed Graiver family in Argentina and international business interests from Nigeria, Liberia, Argentina and Yugoslavia. He espoused constitutional/equal protection challenges, appearing before the Supreme Court in Schwartz v Postel, Regents v Bakke, Steelworkers v Weber as well as in Brashich v Port Authority. He was a professor at Pace University School of Law, White Plains, New York from 1983 to 1989. He was a founding member of the Serbian-American Bar Association. He represented Nikola Kavaja, the "Assassin Who Failed to Kill Tito" and the hijacker of American Airlines Flight 293. In June 1979 he boarded the hijacked plane at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and negotiated the release of 135 passengers; he substituted himself as hostage and surrendered his client at Shannon, Ireland. He defended Momcilo Krajisnik, the Speaker of the People's Assembly of Republika Srpska and a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996–1998) and Stevan Todorovic, both accused of war crimes before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the Hague,