Robert Fellmeth

Child Advocacy/Children's Rights, Consumer Law, Family Law, Government Agencies, Legal Ethics, Professional Responsibility, Public Interest/Public Law and Regulation, White-Collar Crime

Fellmeth was an attorney with the Center for the Study of Responsive Law in Washington, D.C., from 1968 to 1973, and was one of the original "Nader's Raiders," investigating the Federal Trade Commission in 1968. He served as a deputy district attorney for San Diego County and as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Department of Justice in San Diego, prosecuting state and federal antitrust violations. In 1980, he founded USD's Center for Public Interest Law, and in 1989, he founded the Children's Advocacy Institute. He joined the USD School of Law faculty in 1977.

Professor Fellmeth teaches and writes in the areas of children's rights, public interest law, regulation, antitrust, and consumer law.

Fellmeth has served on the boards of Consumer Union (publisher of Consumer Reports), California Common Cause, and Voices for America’s Children. He served on the Board of the National Association of Counsel for Children from 1996-2018, and currently serves on the boards of Public Citizen, the Partnership for America’s Children, The Maternal and Child Heath Access Foundation, and First Star. He is the former California State Bar discipline monitor (1987-1992).