Ashlyn Phelps

Ashlyn Phelps is a law clerk at the Human Trafficking Legal Center.  She leads the Center’s data management and analysis work and supports the strategic litigation program.

Phelps earned her JD from Fordham University School of Law and an LLM in European Law at Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II).  At Fordham, she was a member of the Fordham Law Review, regional quarterfinalist on Fordham’s Jessup International Law Moot Court Team, and a Crowley Scholar in International Human Rights, where she worked on a project focused on migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong SAR.  As the Chapter Director of International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) Fordham, Phelps connected over 30 students with more than 15 events and projects to support refugees and asylum seekers and to learn about issues in refugee and asylum law.

Phelps has previously worked with the Human Trafficking Legal Center as a 2023 summer legal fellow and consultant.  Prior to this, she worked as a legal intern with Landesa, as a judicial extern for the Honorable Kiyo A. Matsumoto of the Eastern District of New York, and as a fellow with International Justice Mission’s Anti-Forced Labor Slavery programs in Southeast Asia.

*Not admitted to practice law.