CPPC Announces Winner of the 2022 Julianne D. Fellmeth Public Interest Law Scholarship, Summer Bosse ’23 (JD Candidate)
SAN DIEGO (April 13, 2022) - The Consumer Protection Policy Center (CPPC) at the University of San Diego (USD) School of Law is proud to announce the recipient of the 2022 Julianne D. Fellmeth Public Interest Law Scholarship, Summer Bosse, ‘23 (JD Candidate).
The scholarship was established in honor of Julianne D’Angelo Fellmeth ’76 (BA), ’83 (JD), who retired in 2019 after serving as the Center for Public Interest Law’s (now CPPC), Administrative Director for 30 years. As the Julie D. Fellmeth Scholar, Ms. Bosse will dedicate 150 hours over the next year to develop an innovative “big idea” for using the law as a tool for social change. Specifically, Summer’s project will focus on promoting a ballot initiative that calls for plastic regulation in California and promoting city-level plastic regulations through public comments and outreach at city councils. She also plans on promoting education about micro-plastic dangers, the ballot initiative, avenues for change, and how to make public comments by reaching out to several organizations, especially at the collegiate level. She believes educating the next generation of environmentalists and voters on how they can impact their local governments is key to increasing public participation in important issues.
Summer Bosse is a rising third-year law student who was born and raised in California. She grew up in Santa Barbara and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Legal Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. While at USD School of Law she has worked with the Legal Aid Society of California, the Transgender Name and Gender-Marker Change Clinic, and the Women's Law Caucus.
About Consumer Protection Policy Center
Founded in 1980, the University of San Diego School of Law’s Consumer Protection Policy Center (CPPC) at the Centers for Public Interest Law (CPIL) serves as an academic center of research and advocacy in regulatory and public interest law. CPPC focuses its efforts on the study of an extremely powerful, yet often overlooked, level of government: state regulatory agencies. Under the supervision of experienced public interest attorneys and advocates, CPPC law student interns study California agencies that regulate business, professions, and trades.
CPPC publishes the California Regulatory Law Reporter, a unique legal journal that covers the activities and decisions of over 12 major California regulatory agencies.
In addition to its academic program, CPPC has an advocacy component. Center faculty, professional staff, and interns represent the interests of the unorganized and underrepresented in California’s legislature, courts, and regulatory agencies. CPPC attempts to make the regulatory functions of California government more efficient and visible by serving as a public monitor of state regulatory activity. The Center has been particularly active in reforming the state’s professional discipline systems for attorneys and physicians, and in advocating public interest reforms to the state’s open meetings and public records statutes.
About the University of San Diego School of Law
Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world. The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest law and taxation.
USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates. The law school’s faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 30th nationally among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 28th nationally in past-year faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.