Andrew Fede

Biography

I am a 1978 graduate of Montclair State, where I earned a B.A. degree in history, summa cum laude, and a New Jersey teacher certification for social studies, grades 7 to 12. I obtained my J.D. degree from Rutgers Law School in Newark in 1982.

I have been practicing law in New Jersey since 1982, and I have been teaching here at Montclair State since 1986.

I try to include in all of the courses I teach here at Montclair instruction about the content and skills that I wish I knew before I went to law school.

I have taught the following courses at Montclair State:

Undergraduate Courses: Freedom, Slavery, and the Law; Senior Research and Writing Seminar in Jurisprudence (Parts 1 and 2); Essentials of Jurisprudence; Legal Writing; Legal Reasoning; Introduction to Paralegalism; Civil Litigation; Introduction to Law; and Fundamentals of Legal Research.

Graduate Courses: Research Methods and Analysis and Administrative Law.

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Research

My law practice has included civil litigation, local government and land use law, and appellate litigation. I have argued five times before the New Jersey Supreme Court and many times before the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division.

I also am the author of four books on the legal history of slavery and many articles on legal history and other legal topics. My fourth book was published in October 2024.

You can read more about my most recent book "A Degraded Caste of Society: Unequal Protection of the Law as a Badge of Slavery" (University of Georgia Press, 2024) in the 2024 Alumni Profile https://www.montclair.edu/alumni/2024/09/17/andrew-t-fede-78-considers-history-equality-and-roads-not-taken/

You also can read about my 2017 book "Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and the Atlantic World (2017)" in the 2018 Alumni Profile at https://www.montclair.edu/alumni/2018/04/18/andrew-fede-78/

You also can read about my publications at my website, http://andrewtfede.com