Sam Menefee (1950-date) was born in Denver, Colorado, coming of age in Louisiana and Virginia. He obtained degrees from Yale (where he was a Scholar of the House), Oxford (Rhodes Scholar), Harvard Law, Virginia, and Cambridge. He has been affiliated with the Centers for Oceans Law and Policy and National Security Law at UVA for over a quarter century, and currently serves as an adjunct professor at World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden. Menefee is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Society of Antiquaries, and the Royal Anthropological Institute; his first book, Wives for Sale, won the inaugural Katharine Briggs Prize of the Folklore Society. He has been admitted to the bars of seven states and the District of Columbia and is a recognized expert on piracy and maritime terrorism, having written over fifty-five chapters and articles on the subject, and been made a Huntingdon Fellow by the Mariners' Museum. Over the years, Menefee has tramped Hadrian's Wall and the Pennine Way, stalked red deer in the Highlands and hunted in Mozambique, sailed in the Bahamas and john-boated down the Yukon, rowed three times for the Oxford Lightweights and written a musical, and climbed in the Highlands and Alps (just making it to the top of Mount Sinai on a recent trip). Not yet content to raise bees in the country, he looks forward to new academic interests and other challenges.