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International Affairs

Ronald Sievert

Ronald Sievert

Associate Professor of the Practice and Director of the Certificate in Advanced International Affairs Program

rsievert@tamu.edu

Phone: (979) 845-1632

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Professor Sievert graduated from St. Bonaventure University in 1970, served four years as an Army officer and graduated from the University of Texas School of Law in 1977. He joined the US Department of Justice in 1983. After trying several major violent crime, corruption and fraud cases he was named a DOJ Senior Litigation Counsel, Chief of the Criminal Division of the Eastern District of Texas, Chief of the Austin Division of the Western District of Texas and DOJ Assistant Director in Charge of the evaluation of all of the nation's US Attorney's offices. In 1990 he was assigned to DOJ's National Security Working Group and as an International and National Security Coordinator for the Department as well as legal advisor to the Central Texas Counter Terrorism Working Group. As INSC he worked closely with the FBI, CIA and the intelligence community on both international and national security related cases, trained federal prosecutors, and has traveled to Kosovo, Qatar, Israel and England to teach foreign judges and prosecutors and investigate international and national security matters. He began teaching at the FBI Academy and US Department of Justice Advocacy Institute in 1985. In 2000 he took a leave of absence to teach National Security Law and Federal Criminal Law at the University of Texas School of Law and has taught as an adjunct professor at UT Law for twenty years. He began teaching at the Bush School in 2007. At the Bush School Professor Sievert has taught National and Homeland Security Law, International Law and continued to work with the CIA, Stratfor and others on various projects. He has also served on the faculty curriculum, worklife and several search committees as well as Director of the Certificate in Advanced International Affairs. He has received several awards for his work including the Department of Justice Directors Award for Superior Performance on two occasions and awards from several government agencies. He has published two books, Cases and Materials on US Law and National Security (2000, FOURTH edition 2018) and Defense, Liberty and the Constitution (2005) as well as eleven Law Review Articles on legal issues related to national security.

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Cases and Materials on US Law and National Security (2000, 2006, and 2012)

Defense, Liberty and the Constitution (2005)

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Time for the Creation of a Standing Rapid Reaction UN Peace Service and the Potential Employment of Former U.S. Military as a Significant Component of Such a Force-pending publication ABA The International Lawyer, 2018

A Comparison of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act with the Law of Electronic Surveillance in Europe, American Journal of Criminal Law 2016

Time to Rewrite to Ill Conceived and Dangerous Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, National Security Law Journal 2014

Congress's Consistent Intent To Utilize Military Commissions In The War Against Al-Qaeda And Its Adoption Of Commission Rules That Fully Comply With Due Process, with Congressman Michael McCaul, St. Mary's Law Journal 2011

Working Towards An Enforceable Nuclear Non Proliferation Regime; Fordham International law Journal 2010

A New Perspective on National Security Law Policies During the Bush Administration and Their Implications for the Future; Constitutional in Conception, Problematic in Implementation, Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy, December 2009.

War on Terrorism or Global Law Enforcement Operation; Notre Dame Law Review 2007

Meeting the Twenty First Century Terrorist Threat Within the Scope of Twentieth Century Constitutional Law; Houston Law Review 2001

Campbell v. Clinton and the Continuing Attempt to Reassert Congress' Constitutional Authority to Initiate, or Prevent, War; Dickinson Law Review 2001

Patriot 2005-2007, Truth, Controversy and Consequences; Texas Review of Law and Politics 2007

A New Perspective the International Criminal Court; Why the Right Should Support the ICC and How the US Can Use It; University of Pittsburg Law Review 2007

Missile Guidance to China, Nuclear Technology to Libya, Air Defense to Iraq; Has the Time Arrived to Revamp Our Outdated and Ineffective Export Control Regime; Texas International Law Journal 2004

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