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Robert Fellmeth: Transforming Children’s Lives Through Law and Education
- Robert Fellmeth, JD, has over 30 years of experience in education, specializing in child advocacy and legal services. He is a professor of law at the University of San Diego School of Law and founder and executive director of the Centers for Public Interest. He is the founder and director of the Children’s Advocacy Institute, which works on child rights issues through public education, litigation and legislation changes. Fellmeth wrote legislation to create the nation's only State Bar Court to adjudicate attorney discipline — an independent state system in regulating counsel. He is presently working on a major case relating to social security benefits for vulnerable former foster children and those leaving the system and litigating the case in California.
- In 1967, Fellmeth earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and in humanities, cum laude, from Stanford University, followed by a Juris Doctor from Harvard University Law School in 1970. Fellmeth is the co-author and author of various publications and contributed to textbooks on children’s rights and law. He brought over 20 antitrust actions and led studies of major state agencies relating to published reports, books, and legislative reforms.
- Fellmeth works on legislative reports and litigation for the Children’s Advocacy Institute (CAI), where he is responsible for creating “Kids’ Plates” — vehicle license plate options allowing the use of hearts and other symbols, and millions in fees generated dedicated to child safety measures. He worked for Ralph Nader's consumer projects and later became a deputy district attorney in San Diego, where he formed the nation’s first antitrust local prosecution unit.
- Fellmeth shifted his career towards teaching in 1981, becoming a professor of law at the University of San Diego School of Law and rising to Price Professor of Public Interest Law in 1992. His students graduated from law school with a concentration in child rights, consumer protection, or energy policy initiatives.
- Fellmeth’s consumer protection work includes monitoring major state agencies by staff and students, and disclosing details in California, the only reporter of its kind in the nation. He has been much involved in administrative law, and his projects have involved substantial reforms to Athletic Commission, the Public Utilities Commission, the Medical Board, the Contractors’ State Licensing Board, the Accountancy Board, and the State Bar.
- Fellmeth’s teaching includes clinics, legislative advocacy, and litigation. It involves advocacy offices with counsel located in Sacramento and Washington, DC, and participation in many of the national associations, including Public Citizen and the National Association of Counsel for Children, among others. Fellmeth is presently working on a major case relating to social security benefits for children in foster care and those who leave the system at age 18.
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