Robert Fellmeth
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Stanford University, Harvard University |
| Occupation | lawyer |
| Notable work | The Nader Report on the Federal Trade Commission. |
Robert ("Bob") Fellmeth, is a tenured Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, holder of the Price Chair in Public Interest Law, and executive director of the Center for Public Interest Law and the Children’s Advocacy Institute.
Robert Fellmeth attended Kailua High School on Oahu in the state of Hawaii. He was elected its student body president in 1962 and graduated in 1963. Fellmeth then graduated with an AB cum laude from Stanford University in 1967 and with a JD from Harvard University in 1970). While at Harvard, he chaired the law school’s Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Research Committee and worked on the initial issues of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
While at Harvard Law School, Fellmeth became one of the original "Nader's Raiders," working as part of the consumer movement of the 1960s and '70s with consumer advocate Ralph Nader. He was one of the initial 7 law students investigating the Federal Trade Commission in 1968, and was one of three co-authors of The Nader Report on the Federal Trade Commission. After its publication, he organized what was then called “Nader’s Raiders” in the summer of 1969, raising funds and recruiting researchers divided into 5 groups examining the performance of the FDA, Department of Agriculture, air pollution and water pollution control and the transportation regulation of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), respectively. Resulting books included The Chemical Feast, Vanishing Air, Water Wasteland, Sewing the Wind, and the Interstate Commerce Omission. He supervised the ICC project of 7 law students, resulting in a jointly authored book, ‘’The Interstate Commerce Omission’’ (Grossman, 1969). During this period, Life Magazine featured these researchers in an article entitled “The Lone Ranger Gets a Posse” and picturing the students, including Fellmeth and the team directors, standing behind Nader on the Capitol steps.
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