Ashley Kobi is a 2012 J.D. candidate at American University’s Washington College of Law, where she serves as a Blog Editor on the IP Brief. She is also an Articles Editor on the American University Business Law Review, a student attorney in the civil division of D.C. Law Students in Court, and a student editor for the ABA’s Annual Review of Intellectual Property Law Developments 2011. Ashley completed her undergraduate degree at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she studied international area studies, pre-med, and dance. Prior to starting law school, Ashley worked at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius as a litigation paralegal. During law school she has worked on pharmaceutical policy issues as a dean’s fellow at the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property and on chemical and biological weapons proliferation prevention at the Partnership for Global Security.