Woodrow A. Potesta Professor of Law
Charles DiSalvois the Woodrow A. Potesta Professor of Law at West Virginia University. He is an expert on Mohandas Gandhi’s law practice. Professor Disalvo the author of widely acclaimed biography of Gandhi’s life as a lawyer. It was first published in India by Random House as The Man Before the Mahatma and then by the University of California Press in the United States and the rest of the world as M.K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law: The Man Before the Mahatma. The book argues that Gandhi developed his philosophy and practice of nonviolence as a practicing member of the legal profession.
Professor DiSalvo is also an expert in civil disobedience more generally. For many years, he has taught one of the few law school courses in the United States on civil disobedience. He has represented civil disobedients in state and federal trial and appellate courts, written widely on the subject of civil disobedience and the law, and lectured on the subject here and abroad.
Professor DiSalvo was educated at St. John Fisher College (B.A., history), Claremont Graduate School (M.A., East Asian studies), and the University of Southern California (J.D), where he was a member of the Southern California Law Review. Upon his graduation from law school, he was awarded a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellowship to practice poverty law for the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky.
He came to West Virginia University after serving as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. In addition to teaching a course on civil disobedience and the law, he teaches courses on civil procedure and trial advocacy. He has won college, university, state, and national awards for his teaching.
He is the co-founder of the West Virginia Fund for Law in the Public Interest.
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About Charles R. DiSalvo
Charles DiSalvois the Woodrow A. Potesta Professor of Law at West Virginia University. He is an expert on Mohandas Gandhi’s law practice. Professor Disalvo the author of widely acclaimed biography of Gandhi’s life as a lawyer. It was first published in India by Random House as The Man Before the Mahatma and then by the University of California Press in the United States and the rest of the world as M.K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law: The Man Before the Mahatma. The book argues that Gandhi developed his philosophy and practice of nonviolence as a practicing member of the legal profession.
Professor DiSalvo is also an expert in civil disobedience more generally. For many years, he has taught one of the few law school courses in the United States on civil disobedience. He has represented civil disobedients in state and federal trial and appellate courts, written widely on the subject of civil disobedience and the law, and lectured on the subject here and abroad.
Professor DiSalvo was educated at St. John Fisher College (B.A., history), Claremont Graduate School (M.A., East Asian studies), and the University of Southern California (J.D), where he was a member of the Southern California Law Review. Upon his graduation from law school, he was awarded a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellowship to practice poverty law for the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky.
He came to West Virginia University after serving as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. In addition to teaching a course on civil disobedience and the law, he teaches courses on civil procedure and trial advocacy. He has won college, university, state, and national awards for his teaching.
He is the co-founder of the West Virginia Fund for Law in the Public Interest.
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Disciplines
Law and Civil Procedure
Research Interests
Forthcoming Works (1)
M.K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law: The Man Before the Mahatma (7)
M. K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law is the first biography of the Mahatma’s early years as a lawyer. It follows Gandhi as he embarks on a personal journey of self-discovery: from his education in Britain, through the failure of his first law practice in India, to his eventual migration to South Africa. Two editions of Professor DiSalvo's book have been published: first by Random House India in January 2012 and then by University of California Press in November 2013. Details of each edition as well as significant reviews and commentary of the book are below.
Other M.K. Gandhi Scholarship (9)
In addition to his book, "M. K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law", Professor DiSalvo has published other significant scholarship on the life and work of M.K. Gandhi.