John Robert Egan
Director,
Refugee & Immigration Law Clinic
Director,
Refugee & Immigration Law Clinic
John Robert Egan is an experienced Immigration Lawyer and served as Chairperson of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Hawai’i Chapter in 2008-2009. In the early 1990’s he worked as a Field Officer for the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR, serving in posts in Mozambique and Malawi. This experience, working to ameliorate the impacts of large-scale forced migration, provided a strong motivation to learn the international laws and protocols related to cross-border population movements.
At Richardson, Egan directs the Refugee & Immigration Law Clinic, providing students with live-client practice opportunities before the Immigration Court, the various immigration agencies and the Federal Courts of Appeal. The Clinic has a dual mission, training new practitioners in the complex field of immigration, and facilitating access to legal assistance for members of the Hawai’i immigrant community.
