Lake Travis Republican Club March 2023 Meeting

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, work life, and several search committees, and 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.