Bowles Rice Professor of Law Emeritus
Courses Taught
- Bankruptcy
- Commercial Law
- Contracts I and II
- Debtors’ and Creditors’ Rights
- Legal Drafting
- Sales and Secured Transactions
Biography
Vincent Paul Cardi, a professor at West Virginia University since 1967, has taught Contracts I and II, Sales, UCC Article 2, Secured Transactions, Federal Bankruptcy, Law of Creditors and Debtors, Drafting Legal Documents in Commercial and Business Transactions, and Environmental Law. He also taught International Law, serving as the faculty advisor to the law school’s Jessup Cup team, which won the national and international competition defeating Brunel University (United Kingdom) to become World Champion in 1973.
He has been a visiting law professor at Wake Forest University, Ohio State University, Mercer University, Saint John’s University and St. Thomas University. He was also a research fellow at Oxford University in England and a legal writing instructor at Boston University.
He has been selected Professor of the Year by the WVU College of Law graduating class in 2012 and 2019. He was awarded the university-wide WVU Foundation Outstanding Teacher Award in 1992 and 2020.
He chairs the West Virginia State Commission on Uniform State Laws and is a Commissioner on the nationwide Uniform Law Commission. Among his recent work on the Uniform Law Commission, he proposed that the Commission draft a statute creating civil remedies for victims of unauthorized publication of intimate images, commonly known as "revenge pornography". As a result, the Uniform Law Commission established a committee to study and then draft the statute. Appointed Chair of both the Study and Drafting Committees, Professor Cardi directed the drafting of the Uniform Civil Remedies for Unauthorized Disclosure of Intimate Images Act, which was completed in the summer of 2018, approved as a Uniform Act by the Uniform Law Commission in July 2018 and by the American Bar Association in February 2019.
He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, past President of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools, former board member and President of Legal Aid of West Virginia, former Commissioner on the West Virginia State Election Commission, a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review Advisory Board, a member of the West Virginia Law Institute Governing Council, and served many years as the West Virginia University Faculty Senate Parliamentarian.
Publications and Research
- Five Decades of Article 9 in West Virginia. West Virginia Law Review. (in press)
- Cardi, Litigation as Violence, 49 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 677 (2014).
- Cardi, Promissory Estoppel in the 21st Century: Examining a Slice of Cases for Patterns of Determining Liability on Promissory Estoppel and Determining Remedies for Non-Performance, REMEDIES AND ECONOMICS, Presses Universitaires d’Aix-Marseille-PUAM (2010).
- Compendium of State Certificate of Title Laws, American Bar Association, (Contributor) (2009)
- Bamberger & Jacobson, State Limited Liability Company Acts, Aspen Publishing Co. (Contributor)
- Cardi, Preserving Existing Security Interests Under Revised Article 9 of The Uniform Commercial Code: A Concise Summary of The Transition Rules and Some Recommendations for Secured Parties, 103 W.VA. L REV. 288 (2001).
Education
- A.B., Ohio State University, 1963
- J.D., Ohio State University, 1967
- LL.M., Harvard University, 1971
