D.R. Burgess, JD, PhD (New York, NY) is an assistant professor of legal history at Yeshiva University and the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law. He is the author of The Pirates’ Pact: The Secret Alliances Between History’s Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial America and Seize the Trident: The Race for Superliner Supremacy and How It Altered the Great War. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Legal Affairs, American Bar Association National Security Law Report, and other periodicals.