Faculty/Staff ProfileTitle

Areas of Expertise
Administrative Law
Labor Law
Employment Law
Contracts
International and Comparative Law

Biography
Andrew J. Ziaja is currently an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law. From 2024-2025, he was a Visiting Associate Professor and Interim Director of the Martin H. Malin Institute for Law and the Workplace at Chicago-Kent College of the Law, Illinois Institute of Technology. He has also taught at the University of Arizona, School of Government and Public Policy. His teaching and research centers on workplace law and administrative law, drawing on methodologies from history and policy analysis, as well as from his extensive background in practice. Ziaja’s scholarship has appeared, for example, in the Seattle University Law Review, Pace Law Review, and monographs published by the Institute for International Law and Justice at New York University and Cambridge University Press. He is a co-author of Global Administrative Law: The Casebook (Sabino Cassese et al. ed., 3d ed., 2012).

Ziaja joined the academy after a nearly fifteen-year career in civil litigation as a labor lawyer, law partner, and public servant. While serving most recently with the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C., he led efforts by the Agency in relation to litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court, working with the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Solicitor General to develop the government’s briefing and oral argument. He has also served as lead counsel in trial and appellate litigation on behalf of government and private litigants. Ziaja has delivered oral argument before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third and Ninth Circuits, as well as the California Courts of Appeal. He has further appeared in many other federal and state matters before arbitrators, administrative tribunals, the California Supreme Court, the Oregon Supreme Court, and U.S. District Courts throughout the country. He began his legal career in 2008 as an attorney-advisor with the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Administrative Law Judges in San Francisco, before joining a 90-year-old California law firm representing labor unions, employee plaintiffs, and employee-benefit plans.

Ziaja earned a law degree from the University of California College of Law, San Francisco, where he was Managing Editor of the University of California Law Constitutional Quarterly. He holds an MPA magna cum laude from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, known as Sciences Po, and a BA with honors in history and class distinction from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He additionally attended the University of California, Berkeley on a graduate fellowship in history.