Margaret Kuehne Taylor is passionate about immigration law. She recently retired from a rewarding career at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and currently teaches the law school’s asylum law seminar. She serves on the editorial board of the American Immigration Lawyers Association Journal (AILA) and on the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration (ABA COI) and lectures and writes about immigration law topics in a variety of fora. During her 20-year tenure as a senior litigation counsel at DOJ’s Office of Immigration Litigation (OIL), she litigated a wide range of immigration-related issues in every federal court of appeals that considers such issues. She also worked at DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review for 10 years, where she served as an associate general counsel, a Board of Immigration Appeals staff attorney, and a judicial law clerk in the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Office. She holds a BA from Brigham Young University, an MA from Northwestern University, and a JD from George Mason University.