Charles DiSalvo

Charles DiSalvo is the Woodrow A. Potesta Professor of Law at West Virginia University, where he teaches one of the few law school courses in the United States on civil disobedience. He has represented civil disobedients in trial and appellate courts, written widely on civil disobedience and lectured on the subject in the United States and abroad.
Professor DiSalvo was educated at St. John Fisher College, Claremont Graduate University, and the University of Southern California School of Law, 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 practise poverty law for the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund.
He served as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School before joining the West Virginia faculty. In addition to teaching a course on civil disobedience and the law, he teaches courses on civil procedure and trial advocacy. He is the co-founder of the West Virginia Fund for Law in the Public Interest.
He is married to Kathleen Kennedy, with whom he has three children, Clare, Maura and Philip.