Matthew Titolo

Professor Titolo received his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Berkeley Business Law Journal and 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. His current research focuses on the history of American public-private contracts and the outsourcing of core public functions to the private sector. Professor Titolo teaches American Legal History, Contracts, Commercial Law and Remedies.

He is currently at work on a book entitled Privatization and Its Discontents: Infrastructure, Law and American Democracy.