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Portrait of Matthew Titolo

Faculty

Matthew Titolo

Associate Dean for Faculty James H. (Buck) and June Harless Professor of Law

Email: matthew.titolo@mail.wvu.edu Phone: 304-293-4719 Fax: 304-293-6891 Office: Room 140-B, WVU College of Law

Courses Taught

  • Contracts
  • American Legal History
  • Commercial Law
  • Remedies

Biography

Professor Titolo received his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Associate Editor of the California Law Review and Editor-in-Chief of the Berkeley Business Law Journal. He earned a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining the WVU law faculty, Professor Titolo was an associate at Latham & Watkins LLP in Silicon Valley, California, where he practiced complex commercial litigation. Professor Titolo was a Fulbright Scholar in Spain in 2018–2019. He teaches Remedies and commercial law courses and serves as Associate Dean for Faculty, a role in which he administers faculty affairs, supports accreditation and academic administration, and works with the Dean and Vice Dean on matters affecting the College of Law’s academic program.

Publications and Research

  • PRIVATIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS: INFRASTRUCTURE, LAW AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, Cambridge UP, forthcoming
  • The Corporation’s Neoliberal Soul? In Jody Greene and Sharif Youssef, eds., THE HOSTILE TAKEOVER: HUMAN RIGHTS AFTER CORPORATE PERSONHOOD (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming).
  • Foreword: ClassCrits IX Symposium Issue, 39 W. NEW ENG. L. REV. 449 (2017)
  • Legal Education as Training for Hierarchy in 2015, 10 UNBOUND: HARVARD JOURNAL OF THE LEGAL LEFT 91 (2015)
  • The Jargon of Corruption, 43 Sw. L. REV. 591 (2014)
  • Leasing Sovereignty: on State Infrastructure Contracts, 47 U. RICH. L. REV. 631 (2013)
  • Privatization and the Market Frame, 60 BUFF. L. REV. 493 (2012)
  • Retroactivity and the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009, 86 IND. L.J. 257 (2011)
  • Davis M. Rabban, AMERICAN LEGAL THOUGHT AND THE TRANSATLANTIC TURN TO HISTORY, Law, Culture and the Humanities, 2014 (peer reviewed)
  • Sincerity and Reflexive Satire in Anthony Trollope’s The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson, VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE 43.1 (2015) (peer-reviewed humanities journal)
  • Liberalism and Accountability in David Copperfield, ENGLISH LITERARY HISTORY 70.1 (2003): 171-195 (peer-reviewed humanities journal)

Education

  • J.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2005
  • Ph.D., English Literature, University of California, 2001
  • M.A., English Literature, University of Texas, Austin, 1993
  • B.A., English Literature, Baruch College, 1991