DAVID CRUMP is a Professor of Law at the University of Houston. He earned his degrees at Harvard College and the University of Texas School of Law. He has represented most of the 50 states in the United States Supreme Court. Early in his career, he worked as an aerospace engineer, and economist, and an assistant district attorney. His teaching books are used at many law schools. He is the author of eight novels, four books of poetry, and a modern translation and annotation of Virgil's The Aeneid. David is a guitar player in a band, and outfielder in the senior baseball league, a ventriloquist, and the father of six. He lives in Houston, Texas with his wife Susanne.