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Ashley London

Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology

Bio

Ashley M. London serves as Associate Professor of Law and Director of Bar Studies at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University. In this capacity, she teaches courses including Professional Responsibility, Introduction to Law and the Legal Profession, and a range of bar readiness courses. She also designs and implements comprehensive bar preparation programming, with a pedagogical emphasis on improving student performance and bar passage outcomes.

Her teaching and scholarship center on legal ethics, professional identity formation, the intersection of legal ethics and new technologies, and innovative, evidence-based pedagogical methods for legal education and bar examination readiness. Professor London’s research and academic interests include legal ethics, law school pedagogy, the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE), and the broader landscape of bar admissions and licensure requirements. Additional areas of substantive expertise include character and fitness requirements, family law, guardian ad litem representation in special proceedings, estate planning, landlord/tenant law, housing code enforcement, and legal media relations. Before entering academia, she practiced law in the housing division at Legal Aid of North Carolina and later established her own civil litigation practice, with a particular focus on guardian ad litem appointments for elderly and incapacitated clients.

Professor London began her legal career in Washington, D.C., as a volunteer legal intern in both the Bankruptcy Judges Division and the Article III Judges Division, through a selective post-graduate program.

Before entering the legal profession, Professor London worked for over a decade as an award-winning journalist in North Carolina. Her work appeared across print, radio, and television platforms, and included interviews with public figures ranging from Sarah, Duchess of York, and Joan Rivers to Kate Spade and Wolfgang Puck, as well as executives from multinational corporations. She often reflects on the unique experiences of that career as formative to her interdisciplinary perspective.

Professor London holds leadership roles in the Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE) and serves on the executive committee of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on Professional Responsibility. Professor London also serves on the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Legal Academics Committee. She presents ethics CLEs at conferences across the country.

Bar and Court Â鶹´ås

North Carolina State Bar. ID No. 43018.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Attorney’s License. ID No. 323918

The Supreme Court of the United States

United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of North Carolina.

Select Publications

London, Ashley, Advocate- Don’t Hallucinate! Appellate Court Staff Attorneys as Vanguards for Ethical AI Usage, forthcoming in The Federal Circuit Bar Journal, a specialty publication of the George Washington University Law School (2025). Available at SSRN:  or 

Ashley M. London, The Unintended Costs of Advance Waivers of Future Conflicts. The University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 2024, Vol. 86.1.

Ashley M. London, Who Watches the Watchmen? Using the Law Governing Lawyers to Identify the Applicant Duty Gap and Hold Bar Examiner Gatekeepers Responsible. Michigan State Law Review 377 (2023). 

Lawrence J. Fox, Susan R. Martyn, Ana Pottratz Acosta, Ashley M. London, Traversing the Ethical Minefield, Problems, Law, and Professional Responsibility, 5^th Edition, Aspen Publishing, (2022).

Ashley M. London, Something Wicked This Way Thumbs: Personal Contact Concerns of Text-Based Attorney Marketing. Houston law Review, Vol. 58, Issue 1.

Ashley M. London and Dr. James Schreiber, Humanity is Doomed: Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money. Duquesne Law Review, AI Symposium Edition, Vol. 58, Issue 1.

CMIST Course Offerings

• 84-285 Introduction to Legal Education and the Legal Profession