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Eugenio Mollo, Jr.

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Eugenio Mollo, Jr. launched and teaches the Immigrant Justice Clinic. He also teaches Immigration Law and Immigration Practice Simulation. He joined the College of Law in 2016 as an Adjunct Professor of Law to teach Immigration Law courses and became a full-time faculty member in August 2022.聽

Through the Immigrant Justice Clinic and Advanced Immigrant Justice Clinic, Mollo supervises law students representing members of the local community with critical legal needs working through the U.S. immigration system. Under his guidance, students represent clients on family and humanitarian immigration cases, including people seeking family reunification and safety from domestic violence, persecution, torture, and human trafficking. Mollo and his students regularly appear before federal immigration agencies in Cleveland and Detroit. Mollo received the College of Law Professor of the Year Award from the Class of 2024 and the Class of 2026.

Mollo鈥檚 academic work focuses on clinical legal education, immigration law, and immigrant advocacy topics. In 2023, he co-presented 鈥淣o Time to Think: Exploring Models of Clinic Coverage to Support Scholarship, Professional Development, and Sustainability,鈥� at the Midwest Clinical Legal Education Conference held at the University of Minnesota Law School, and in 2024, he co-presented 鈥淣urturing Communities and Building Leaders: Three Toledo Clinical Models that Strategically Yield Results鈥� at the Midwest Clinical Legal Education Conference held at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He has also presented on immigration-related topics, including 鈥淩eimagining Immigrant Justice: Legal Advocacy in a New Political Era鈥� at the University of Detroit Mercy Law Review Symposium in 2025, and 鈥淭rauma-Informed Advocacy鈥� at the Committee on Regional Training Farmworker and Immigrant Worker Law Training in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 2026.

Prior to joining the full-time faculty, Mollo spent more than fifteen years advocating for immigrant communities at Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE), a nonprofit law firm dedicated to advancing equal justice and opportunity for low-income individuals and groups. He began his legal career as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at ABLE representing detained immigrants. From 2013 to 2022, he served as the managing attorney of the Agricultural Worker and Immigrant Rights practice group. He led and oversaw projects that provided legal assistance to migrant farmworkers, people in removal proceedings, unaccompanied children, refugee survivors of torture, and other vulnerable immigrant populations. 聽

In the community, Mollo is an advisory committee member of Welcome Toledo-Lucas County (Welcome TLC), the region鈥檚 immigrant-friendly initiative. Mollo currently serves on the board of the Greater Toledo Community Foundation, and he has served on the board of directors for the Toledo-Lucas County Library Legacy Foundation, ProMedica Metro Hospitals Foundation, and Equality Toledo. He is a recipient of the region鈥檚 20 Under 40 Leadership Recognition Award.聽

Mollo is admitted to practice law in Ohio, U.S. District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Mollo is a member of the state and federal chapters of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and of the Toledo Bar Association, where he serves on the Pro Bono Advisory Board. 聽

Mollo earned his B.A. from the University of Illinois and his J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law, where he was the editor-in-chief of 鈥淭he Journal of Gender, Race & Justice.鈥�

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Publications

Herre, Allison; Mollo, Jr., Eugenio; Narv谩ez Soto, Lourdes; Piiparinen, Richey; Sankarappa, Manju; and Velasquez, Guadalupe, 鈥淥ur Pathway to a Brighter Future: Ohio鈥檚 New Americans,鈥� Urban Publications (2018)聽

鈥淭he Expansion of Video Conferencing Technology in Immigration Proceedings and Its Impact on Venue Provisions, Interpretation Rights, and the Mexican Immigrant Community,鈥� 9 J. Gender, Race & Just. 689 (2006)聽