The 4th edition of Ronald Sievert’s legal casebook on National Security Law, “Cases and Materials on U.S. Law and National Security,” is being published by William S. Hein.
Sievert, a 1970 history graduate of Bona’s, graduated from the University of Texas School of Law in 1977 after four years as an Army officer and served in the U.S. Department of Justice as a trial attorney and supervisor for 25 years.
He retired from the DOJ in 2008 to teach national security law and international law as an adjunct at the University of Texas in Austin and full time as a professor at the Bush School of Government International Affairs master’s program.
At the DOJ, after trying several major violent crime, corruption and fraud cases, he was named a 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 U.S. Attorney’s offices. In 1990 he was assigned to DOJ’s National Security Working Group and as an international and national security coordinator (INSC) for the department as well as legal adviser to the Central Texas Counter Terrorism Working Group. As INSC he worked closely with the FBI, CIA and the intelligence community on 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.
Sievert is also the author of the book “Defense, Liberty and the Constitution” (2005), as well as 11 Law Review Articles on legal issues related to national security.
He and his wife, Marcia Gibbs Sievert, have three daughters and four grandchildren.
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