Andrew T. Fede

For more than 40 years, Andrew has maintained a diverse practice focused on several areas, which include appellate litigation, business and governmental civil litigation, municipal law, zoning and planning, real estate tax appeal,  labor and employment, employment and other forms of discrimination, wrongful termination, probate law, real estate law, and constitutional law.  He has served as the attorney for the Boroughs of Bogota, Maywood, and Norwood, and for the Township of Mahwah.  He has been the planning board attorney, zoning board attorney, library board attorney, and special counsel in six other New Jersey municipalities. Andrew is a certified mediator in the New Jersey Superior Court mediation program for civil, general equity, and probate cases, was an arbitrator in the Bergen County Superior Court contract/commercial arbitration program, and has been appointed by several Superior Court judges to serve in cases as mediator, arbitrator, special master, and condemnation commissioner.

Since 1986, Andrew has been an adjunct professor at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, teaching a variety of law courses in the University’s Department of Political Science and Law. He is the author of numerous articles on legal topics, which have appeared in a variety of publications. A legal historian, he is the author of A Degraded Caste: Unequal Protection of the Law as a Badge of Slavery (2024); Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and the Atlantic World (2017); Roadblocks to Freedom:  Slavery & Manumission in the United States South (2011), and People Without Rights:  An Interpretation of the Fundamentals of the Law of Slavery in the U.S. South (1992), which was republished in 2011, as well as five scholarly articles that appeared in the Cardozo Law Review, the American Journal of Legal History, the Law and History Review, the Journal of Supreme Court History and FCH Annals: Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians. He also authored biographies of New Jersey judge Andrew Kirkpatrick and New Jersey judge and influential corporate lawyer James B. Dill in the American National Biography (1999) and of Dill in the Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (2009), an article on "Slave Codes" in the Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery (1998), three book reviews that were published in the American Journal of Legal History, and one book review published in the American Historical Review and the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society.