Professor of Law
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
Biography
Professor Titolo received his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Associate Editor of the California Law Review. He earned a Ph.D. in English literature at 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. His current research focuses on 19th-century American legal and political history. Professor Titolo teaches an American legal history survey course, an advanced seminar in legal history, as well as commercial law courses. He is currently completing a Ph.D. in History at WVU.
Publications, Research, and Intellectual Contributions
Books
Privatization and Its Discontents: Infrastructure, Law and American Democracy, Cambridge UP, forthcoming
Book Chapters
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).
Law Review Articles & Essays
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)
Reviews
Davis M. Rabban, American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History, Law, Culture and the Humanities, 2014 (peer reviewed)
Other Articles
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)
