Prior to coming to Chicago-Kent College of Law, Andrew Ziaja joined the faculty at the University of Baltimore School of Law. Ziaja previously spent a nearly 15-year career in civil litigation as a labor lawyer and public servant. While serving with the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C., he led efforts by the Agency in relation to litigation before the United States Supreme Court, which included engagement with the United States Department of Justice, Office of the Solicitor General to prepare the government’s position for 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 United States 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 United States District Courts throughout the country.
In his former practice as a partner at a prominent 90-year old workers’ rights law firm, he represented labor unions and employee-benefits plans serving tens of thousands of workers at public universities, National Laboratories, and major Pacific Coast ports, among many settings. In addition to litigating novel legal issues, his widely varied activities spanned negotiating collective bargaining agreements, drafting and administering ERISA plan terms, strategizing around employee discipline, and defending strikes and related free-speech activity against employer retaliation. He began his legal career in 2008 as an attorney-advisor with the United States Department of Labor, Office of Administrative Law Judges in San Francisco.
Education
M.P.A., Paris Institute of Political Studies
J.D., University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Publications
Journal Placements
Mutually Intelligible Principles?, 43 Pace L. Rev. 1 (2022).
Free Speech in the Balance: An Examination of Yahoo! Inc. v. La Ligue Contre Le
Racisme et L’Antisemitisme for its Bearing on Conflict of Laws, Global Free Speech, and the
International Regulation of the Internet, 11 Glob. Jurist 2 (2011) (peer-reviewed).
Beyond Soft Law? An Assessment of International Labour Organisation Freedom of Association Complaints as a Means to Protect Collective Bargaining Rights in the United States, 9 Glob. Jurist 2 (2009) (peer-reviewed).
Note, Hot Oil and Hot Air: The Development of the Nondelegation Doctrine Through the New Deal, a History, 1813-1944, 36 Hastings Const. L. Q. 921 (2008).
Book Chapters
The International Labour Organization: The Evolution of Soft Law, in Global Administrative Law: The Casebook (Sabino Cassese et al. ed., 3d ed., 2012).
The International Atomic Energy Agency, in Global Administrative Law: The Casebook (Sabino Cassese et al. ed., 3d ed., 2012).
Litigating ILO Standards: U.S. Illustration, in Brown, R. East Asian Labor and Employment Law: International and Comparative Context (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Reports and Papers
Bargaining Union Security and Related Provisions after Janus (October 10, 2019) (presented at AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee California Field Meeting).
Natasha Minsker, The Hidden Death Tax: The Secret Costs of Seeking Execution in California (American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California 2008), (Research Assistant).