Aaron R. Petty

Adjunct Professor

he/him/his

Contact

Assistant:

Assistant:
Laura Lotzgesell
(217) 244-0359
laura5@illinois.edu

About

About

Aaron R. Petty is The Senior Staff Attorney at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, where he leads a staff of nearly 30 attorneys and law clerks responsible for advising the judges on a majority of the judicial business of the court.  Previously, he served as an Appellate Immigration Judge at the Board of Immigration Appeals, the highest administrative tribunal for interpreting and applying immigration and nationality law in the United States, and spent over a decade as a litigator in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Education

PhD Leiden University
JD University of Michigan
MSt University of Cambridge
BA Northwestern University

Courses

Courses

Immigration Law Seminar