Deyan Ranko Brashich

Deyan Ranko Brashich (; , 16 September 1940 – 30 August 2019) was a Serbian-American attorney, author, and columnist.

Life and career Brashich, born in Belgrade in 1940, fled communist Yugoslavia in 1946. His father was a Serbian royalist and anti-communist figure. He was a graduate of Connecticut's Trinity College, the New York University School of Law and The Hague Academy of International Law. He attended the University of Grenoble and University of Hartford's School of Art at the Wadsworth Athenaeum.

He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1966, and worked in a private practice in New York City with the law firm Brashich & Finley. He worked on both civil and criminal cases, as well as domestic and international. representing the politically jailed Graiver family in Argentina; Steelworkers v Weber, and Brashich v Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on constitutional challenges.

He was the lead defense counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague for Momčilo Krajišnik and Stevan Todorovic, both accused of war crimes.

Brashich was also an adjunct professor of law at Pace University, White Plains, New York, from 1983 to 1989.

He died on 30 August 2019. He is survived by his wife, Patricia and their daughter, Arianna. With his first wife, Catherine Sidor, he had two daughters Alexis and Audrey. He is also survived by his older brother, Neboysha R. Brashich. He is editor-at-large for The Country and Abroad, an art and museum magazine and writes the Letter from America column for Scrisul Romanesc, a literary magazine published in Romania. He was a frequent contributor to Pecat, Britic and EKurd Daily.

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). With David E. Blabey, he also wrote Schwartz v Postel, The Making of Modern Law'' (2011).