When a radio program in The Land Down Under needed an expert on Mohandas K. Gandhi, it came to the hills of West Virginia.

“The Law Report” is a half-hour program on Radio National, the Australian Broadcast Corp. equivalent of National Public Radio. Its March 9 program was entitled “Mahatma Gandhi: From Lawyer to National Liberator,” and featured Charles R. DiSalvo, WVU’s Woodrow A. Potesta professor of Law.

DiSalvo teaches Bioethics and the Law, Civil Disobedience and the Law, Civil Procedure and Trial Advocacy.

He has published widely on topics relating to nonviolence and is currently completing a biography of Ghandi titled “From Courthouse to Jailhouse: Mohandas K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law.” His other works related to Ghandi include: “From Lawyer to Civil Disobedient: 1897-1898, A Microcosm of Change,” in “Rethinking Gandhi: Nonviolent Relationality; and “Gandhi: The Spirituality and Politics of Suffering.”

DiSalvo holds a bachelor’s degree in history from St. John Fisher College, a masters in East Asian Studies from Claremont Graduate University and a J.D. from the University of Southern California, where he was a member of the Southern California Law Review.

He has been recognized for his teaching excellence by the Roscoe Pound Foundation, by the West Virginia University Foundation and by his students, who have named him Professor of the Year on six occasions.

The program can be heard at: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lawreport/stories/2010/2835350.htm

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CONTACT: Brian Caudill, College of Law
304-293-7439; Brian.Caudill@mail.wvu.edu

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