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Academic and Professional Focus

Professor 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 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.

Legal and Professional Background

Prior to joining Duquesne Kline Law, Professor London served on the faculty of the Charlotte School of Law, where she was a bar passage lecturer, faculty advisor to the moot court team, and instructor in Professional Responsibility. 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.

Service and Leadership

Professor London is actively engaged in service to the university and broader community. At Duquesne, she serves as the faculty advisor to the law school’s Women in Law Association and the First Generation Law Society. She 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.

Outside the law school, she remains engaged in community service through leadership roles in her church, as well as regularly volunteering for local school activities and with local nonprofit organizations.

Education

  • J.D., Charlotte School of Law
  • B.A., Erskine College

 

 

School

About

FALL

  • Core/Applied Competencies for Legal Practice I (3 credits)
  • Professional Responsibility (3 credits)

SPRING

  • Core/Applied Competencies for Legal Practice I (3 credits)
Traversing the Ethical Minefield, Problems, Law, and Professional Responsibility
Lawrence J. Fox, Susan R. Martyn, Ana Pottratz Acosta, Ashley M. London, Traversing the Ethical Minefield, Problems, Law, and Professional Responsibility (5th ed. 2022) (Aspen Publishing)

Beyond NextGen UBE: A Blueprint for Michigan's Independent Bar Licensing Model
Garrison, Sarah and Gutowski, Nachman and Foster, Steven and London, Ashley, Beyond NextGen UBE: A Blueprint for Michigan's Independent Bar Licensing Model (May 12, 2025). Available at SSRN.

Judge Should Not Have Been Reprimanded for Alito Essay
London, Ashley, “Judge Should Not Have Been Reprimanded for Alito Essay,” a by-request Op-Ed published on the Law360 Legal Ethics online newsletter, Feb. 11, 2024. (This publication received unsolicited positive feedback from the Hon. Ted McKee, senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.)

The Keystone State Should Forge a New Path to Lawyer Licensure: A White Paper
London, Ashley and Gutowski, Nachman and Foster, Steven and Garrison, Sarah, The Keystone State Should Forge a New Path to Lawyer Licensure: A White Paper (January 14, 2025). Available at SSRN.(Forthcoming publication in UNT Dallas Law Review)

Questioning the Inevitability of the NextGen Bar Examination
Gutowski, Nachman and London, Ashley and Foster, Steven and Israel, Taylor, Questioning the Inevitability of the NextGen Bar Examination (July 25, 2024). Available at SSRN.

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

Raising the Bar, Evidence-Based Thinking About the Bar Exam
Ashley M. London, AccessLex Institute, Research Spotlight, Raising the Bar, Evidence-Based Thinking About the Bar Exam, Winter 2023, Vol. 6, Issue 1.

Who Watches the Watchmen? Using the Law Governing Lawyers to Identify the Applicant Duty Gap and Hold Bar Examiner Gatekeepers Responsible
Ashley M. London, Who Watches the Watchmen? Using the Law Governing Lawyers to Identify the Applicant Duty Gap and Hold Bar Examiner Gatekeepers Responsible. Mich. St. L. Rev., (2023, forthcoming). Available at SSRN.

AI Report: Humanity Is Doomed. Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money!
Ashley M. London and James B. Schreiber, AI Report: Humanity Is Doomed. Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money! 58 Duq. L. Rev. (2020). Available at SSRN.

Something Wicked This Way Thumbs: Personal Contact Concerns of Text-Based Attorney Marketing
Ashley M. London, Something Wicked This Way Thumbs: Personal Contact Concerns of Text-Based Attorney Marketing, 58 Houston L. Rev. 99 (Fall 2020). Available at SSRN.

WLD Members Share Insights with Duquesne Law School Students to Confront Overt and Implicit Bias in the Workplace
Ashley London, Mary Kate Coleman, and Emily Kincaid. WLD Members Share Insights with Duquesne Law School Students to Confront Overt and Implicit Bias in the Workplace, Law. J., Vol 22, No. 2 (Jan. 17, 2020).

WLD Members Share Insights with Law Students to Confront Overt and Implicit Bias in the Workplace
Ashley London and Chris Miller, WLD Members Share Insights with Law Students to Confront Overt and Implicit Bias in the Workplace, Law. J., March 15, 2019, at 12.

Informing the Public in Upcoming Judicial Elections
Ashley London, Informing the Public in Upcoming Judicial Elections, 19 N.C. St. B.J. 13 (2014).

Blair Berk Profile
Ashley London, Blair Berk Profile, 18 N.C. St. B.J. 20 (Winter 2013).

Advocate- Don’t Hallucinate! The Singular Role of Appellate Court Staff Attorneys in Promoting Ethical AI Usage
Ashley M. London, “Advocate- Don’t Hallucinate! The Singular Role of Appellate Court Staff Attorneys in Promoting Ethical AI Usage,” a by-invitation ethics CLE presentation for the National Association of Appellate Court Attorneys (NAACA) 2025 Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, July 9, 2025.

How to Get and Keep Long-Term Employment Contracts
Ashley M. London, Kirsha WeyandtTrychta, Sarah Garrison, and Nachman Gutowski. How to Get and Keep Long-Term Employment Contracts, a plenary presentation during the 13th annual Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE) conference held at Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA, May 20-22, 2025.

Preparing for the New Age of Bar Licensure: A Guide for Law Schools
Ashley M. London, Nachman Gutowski, Marsha Griggs, Mary Basick, Christine Francis, and Deborah Merritt. American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Hot Topic Program: Preparing for the New Age of Bar Licensure: A Guide for Law Schools during the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

The ABA Reexamines Faculty Employment Security and Status, and the Academy Needs to Pay Attention
Ashley M. London, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Mary Beth Beasley, Beth Adelman, Adam Shlahet, Sarah Wolking, Kristen Winick, Elizabeth Usman, Olympia Duhart, Brietta Clark, Melanie Jacobs, Mary Bowman. American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Discussion Group: The ABA Reexamines Faculty Employment Security and Status, and the Academy Needs to Pay Attention during the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

AI & Law
Ashley M. London, April Barton, Alan Braverman, Kate Norton, Wes Oliver, Jacqueline Lipton, Tara Willke, “AI & Law.” This 3-hour CLE was delivered during the Duquesne University Homecoming Event at The Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University on October 4, 2024.

Should vs. Shall, AI-Decision-Making, Judicial Recusal, and Other Sticky Wickets: Current Topics in Judicial Ethics & Codes of Conduct
Ashley M. London, “Should vs. Shall, AI-Decision-Making, Judicial Recusal, and Other Sticky Wickets: Current Topics in Judicial Ethics & Codes of Conduct,” a by-invitation ethics CLE presentation for the National Association of Appellate Court Attorneys (NAACA) 2024 Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, July 10, 2024.

What Does Scholarship Look Like?
Ashley M. London, Sara Berman, and Nachman Gutowski, “What Does Scholarship Look Like?” This by-invitation panel presentation was delivered at the Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE) 11th annual conference at the University of Idaho College of Law, Boise, May 20, 2024.

Ethics Update: Emerging Issues Currently Faced by In-House Counsel
Ashley M. London, John Goetz, Margaret C. Gleason, and Kimberly A. Brown, “Ethics Update: Emerging Issues Currently Faced by In-House Counsel,” a by-invitation presentation for the Jones Day Pittsburgh Office’s CLE Academy, Pittsburgh, PA, April 18, 2024.

NextGen Faculty Meeting- How to Prepare and Respond When Presenting on the NextGen Bar Exam
Ashley M. London, Kirsha Trychta, Ann Scarlett, and Joni Wiredu, “NextGen Faculty Meeting- How to Prepare and Respond When Presenting on the NextGen Bar Exam,” a by-invitation presentation delivered at the AccessLex Institute’s “Building Bar Skills” Conference in Philadelphia, PA, April 15-17, 2024.

Ethical Considerations in the Supervision of Nonlawyers Under Rule 5.5
Ashley M. London and Katherine Goelz, “Ethical Considerations in the Supervision of Nonlawyers Under Rule 5.5,” a by-invitation ethics presentation for the Mid-Atlantic Consortium of Law School Externship Programs (MACE), online with more than 200 participants, Friday, January 11, 2024.

NextGen Examined
Ashley M. London, Kirsha Trychta, O.J. Salinas, Brian Sites, and Scott Johns, “NextGen Examined,” a by-invitation webinar hosted by Themis Bar Review, featured the most up-to-date news and developments about the new bar examination product by the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE). September 14, 2023

Let’s get Ethical!
Ashley M. London, “Let’s get Ethical!” A legal ethics primer for the Tribone Center for Clinical Legal Education, Fall 2023 Law Clinic Bootcamp, Pittsburgh, PA, Aug. 19, 2023.

NextGen Bar Exam: What You and Your Students Need to Know Now
Ashley M. London, “NextGen Bar Exam: What You and Your Students Need to Know Now.” A by-request and compensated presentation for the faculty of Atlanta’s Thurgood Marshall Law School to update faculty on the status and challenges posed by the new lawyer licensing product by the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE), via Zoom, August 3, 2023.

Cleaning Our Own House: The Role, Reality & Challenges of Rule 8.4(g) and its Attempts to Advance Professionalism
Ashley M. London and Thomas Farrell, “Cleaning Our Own House: The Role, Reality & Challenges of Rule 8.4(g) and its Attempts to Advance Professionalism.” A by-request, 90-minute, ethics CLE program for the National Association of Appellate Court Attorneys (NAACA) 2023 Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, July 12, 2023.

NextGen Bar: What Does it Mean for Incoming Students?
Ashley M. London and Marsha Griggs, “NextGen Bar: What Does it Mean for Incoming Students?” A by-invitation presentation for The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) 2023 Annual Meeting and Educational Conference, San Diego, June 2, 2023.

AASE Question & Answer with the NCBE
Ashley M. London and Marsha Griggs, “AASE Question & Answer with the NCBE,” Plenary 2, an in-depth question and answer session regarding the NextGen Bar Exam, presentation for 10th Annual Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE) Conference, Santa Clara, hosted by Santa Clara University School of Law (2023). 

Wrongful Convictions, Exonerations, and Legal Ethics
Ashley M. London, Dan Medwed, David Fawcett, John Rago, and John Rice, “Wrongful Convictions, Exonerations, and Legal Ethics.” By-invitation panel presentation for CLE hosted by the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University. April 13, 2023.

Shaping the Bar. The Future of Attorney Licensing
Ashley M. London, Joan Howarth, Sarah Schendel, Russell Engler, Richardson Pierre, New England Law Review Symposium. By-invitation panel presentation for Howarth’s new book, “Shaping the Bar. The Future of Attorney Licensing,” April 5, 2023.

Who We Are: Racism at the Heart of Admission to the Profession
Ashley M. London, Dean Danielle Conway, Marsha Griggs, and Joan Howarth, “Who We Are: Racism at the Heart of Admission to the Profession.” By-invitation panel presentation for the 2023 American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 2023.


Leadership from the Inside Out, Or, What’s Wrong with Being Confident?
Ashley M. London, “Leadership from the Inside Out, Or, What’s Wrong with Being Confident?” By-invitation presentation for Lincoln Memorial University of Duncan School of Law, Knoxville, TN, October, 2022.

Who Watches the Watchmen? Using the Law Governing Lawyers to Identify the Applicant Duty Gap and Hold Bar Examiner Gatekeepers Accountable
Ashley M. London, "Who Watches the Watchmen? Using the Law Governing Lawyers to Identify the Applicant Duty Gap and Hold Bar Examiner Gatekeepers Accountable," a work-in-progress presentation for the 9th Annual Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE) Conference, San Antonio, hosted by St. Mary's University School of Law (2022)

Repeater Rescue 911
Ashley M. London and April Milburn-Knizner, "Repeater Rescue 911, a program dedicated to identifying and diagnosing reasons for bar examination failure and applying treatments that help students succeed." Presented at the 9th Annual Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE) Conference, San Antonio, hosted by St. Mary's University School of Law (2022)

A History of Judicial Recusal and Its Legacy in Today's SCOTUS
Ashley M. London, "A History of Judicial Recusal and Its Legacy in Today's SCOTUS," An Ethics for Breakfast Seminar, The Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law, presenting with The Hon. Daniel McCaffery, The Superior Court of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Farrell, Esq., Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Duquesne University, One-Hour Ethics CLE. (April 26, 2022)

How to Comply with Rule 8.4(g) and Advance Professionalism
Ashley M. London, "How to Comply with Rule 8.4(g) and Advance Professionalism," a CLE offered for a 1-hour ethics credit presented by the Allegheny County Bar Association (ACBA) Women in Law Division. (Feb. 2022)

Leadership from the Inside Out
Ashley M. London and Maryann Herman, "Leadership from the Inside Out," presentation for the Dean's Leadership Fellows Program, Duquesne University School of Law. (Feb. 2022)

Practice Makes for a Perfect PT
April Milburn-Knizner and Ashley M. London, "Practice Makes for a Perfect PT", presented at Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE) virtual conference, hosted by the American University Washington College of Law (May 2021)

Something Wicked this Way Thumbs: Personal Contact Concerns of Text-Based Attorney Advertising
Ashley M. London, Something Wicked this Way Thumbs: Personal Contact Concerns of Text-Based Attorney Advertising, AALS 2020 Annual Meeting, Section on Professional Responsibility, Junior Scholars Work in Progress Program. Washington, D.C. (2020).

Considerations Surrounding the Data Science World We Are In
Ashley M. London & Dr. James Schreiber, "Considerations Surrounding the Data Science World We Are In, Artificial Intelligence: Thinking about law, Law Practice, and Legal Education," presented at Duquesne Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA (2019).

What's Wrong with Being Confident?
Ashley M. London, "What's Wrong with Being Confident?", Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE) Conference (2019).

Personal Contact Concerns of Text-Based Marketing by Attorneys
Ashley M. London, "Personal Contact Concerns of Text-Based Marketing by Attorneys," presentation at Mon Valley Colloquium, Pittsburgh, PA, (2019).

Teaching Law by Design for Adjuncts
Ashley M. London & Maryann Herman, "Teaching Law by Design for Adjuncts" (2018). 

Feedback: Student Learning Applications in Action
Ashley M. London & Dr. Janine Carlock, "Feedback: Student Learning Applications in Action" (2018).
Professional Affiliations
  • Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE) Scholarship Committee, chair, and director of the AASE AccessLex Faculty Scholarship Program, (2025- present).
  • American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on Professional Responsibility, Executive Committee member, (2025- present).
  • Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Legal Academics Committee and Bar Exam Issues Subcommittee, Chair of Bar Exam Issues Subcommittee. (2024-present).
  • Association of Academic Support Educators (AASE) President, the organization’s only two-term president (2022-2024).
  • Allegheny County Bar Association Women in the Law Division, Executive Council Member, (2022-2025)
  • American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Women in Legal Education Section, Executive Committee Member (2019-2021)
  • United States Supreme Court, Member
  • Bar of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Member
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, 2012-present
  • United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, 2012-present
  • North Carolina State Bar, Member
  • North Carolina Bar Association, Member
  • American Bar Association, Member
  • North Carolina State Bar Publications Committee, Member
  • North Carolina Bar Association Communications Committee, Member
  • Mecklenburg Bar Association, Member 2011-2017
  • North Carolina Press Association, Member 1997-2008

Awards and Grants
  • Law school award winner for the 2025 Faculty Honors Showcase at Duquesne University. Nominated by my peers for this inaugural award and featured lecture. This recognition is awarded to faculty, by faculty, and highlights excellence across the campus community. This award is sponsored by the Faculty Senate to recognize individual faculty members for excellence.
  • AccessLex Institute Module Building 2025-2026 Team Grant Recipient. This grant is designed for a doctrinal faculty member to pair with an academic success/bar preparation faculty member to create innovative curriculum units to be distributed nationwide. Prof. David Nows, Duquesne-Kline, and I were chosen to be a part of the third cohort to create a module for Business Associations.
  • The Murray Scholarship Faculty Award in the area of Professional Responsibility, May 2024. This award is made possible by a gift from Chancellor John Murray and recognizes outstanding faculty scholars each year.
  • Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Academic Support Impact Award Recipient, AALS Annual Meeting, January 2024. This award is determined by nomination and vote of peers in legal academia across the country in recognition of a professor’s impact and influence in the field of Academic Support and Bar Preparation.
  • The Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University Excellence in Teaching Award, May 2023. This award is determined by nomination and vote of the Student Bar Association (SBA) for recognition of a professor who performs exceptionally in education and teaching.
  • One of five law professors across the country to receive the inaugural Access Lex-AASE ASP Faculty Scholarship Grant recipients. An award of $5,000 and two mentors assisted in completing, Who Watches the Watchmen: Using the Law Governing Lawyers to Hold Bar Examiners Accountable.
  • 2020 Excellence in Teaching Award from the Duquesne University School of Law's Student Bar Association