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Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) is a non-profit academic think tank based at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and College of Law at Syracuse University. The Institute was established in 2003 with William C. Banks as the founding director. It seeks to support an interdisciplinary approach to questions of national security and counterterrorism law and policy.

INSCT is comprised of several full-time fellows and graduate research assistants and dozens of affiliated faculty members at Syracuse University. The Institute publishes analytical policy papers, journal articles and books; it also develops curriculum for academic certificate programs in national security and counterterrorism law, and advises students seeking careers in the field.

People
William C. Banks, the director of the Institute, is the Syracuse University College of Law Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Banks co-wrote the definitive text in the field of national security law; National Security Law was first published in 1990. In addition, Banks and his co-authors published Counterterrorism Law in 2007 to help define the emerging field of counterterrorism law.

David M. Crane, a faculty member at the Institute, was recently the Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, an international war crimes tribunal, appointed to that position by the Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, in 2002. He was briefly cast in an NBC reality TV series called "The Wanted" where he and his cast members helped to find and bring convicted terrorists to justice.

Additional academics associated with INSCT include:

Michael Barkun

David H. Bennett

Catherine Bertini, Former Executive Director of the World Food Programme

Evan Criddle

Tucker Culbertson

Bruce Dayton

Renee de Nevers

Joan Deppa

Colin Elman

Miriam Elman

Isaac Kfir

Louis Kriesberg

Pat Longstaff

Ines Mergel

Donald B. Planty, former United States Ambassador to Guatemala

Robert Rubinstein

F. William Smullen, III

William Snyder

Brian Taylor

David Van Slyke

Mitchel B. Wallerstein, Dean of the Maxwell School of Syracuse University

Publications
The Journal of National Security Law and Policy is a semi-annual journal co-published with the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law.