Law and politics expert will serve until 2013
USC Law Prof. Elizabeth Garrett has been appointed to the state's Fair Political Practices Commission.
Selected by Secretary of State Debra Bowen, Garrett will serve on the five-member commission until 2013.
“I wanted to appoint someone who reflects my values of transparency, integrity, independence, and pragmatism,” said Bowen, the state’s chief elections officer. “Beth has it all, bringing a breadth of experience that will help the FPPC keep pace with the ever-changing campaign and lobbying landscapes 35 years into the Political Reform Act.”
Garrett is the Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor of Law, Political Science and Public Policy at USC Law. She co-directs the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics (CSLP) and serves on the Board of Directors of the USC Initiative and Referendum Institute, which is affiliated with the CSLP.
Garrett is co-editor of Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy (Cambridge University Press), recently out in paperback, which brings together top experts to explore the problems of budget, tax and fiscal policy at the state, national and international levels.
Garrett has written extensively on campaign finance laws, courts and political parties, lobbying regulations, congressional procedures, the initiative process, and California's gubernatorial recall.
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