Sophie Harleman is working as a lecturer and PhD Candidate for both the Montaigne Centre for Rule of Law and Administration of Justice and the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology. Her research focuses on the theme of 'Intelligence and Law,' with a particular emphasis on the interplay between cyber defence, national security, and fundamental rights within the intelligence domain. She is supervised by mr. dr. J.J. Oerlemans and prof. dr. C.M.J. Ryngaert.
In 2019, Sophie earned an LLM in Law & Technology from Tilburg 木瓜福利影视. In 2020, she graduated cum laude with an LLM in Constitutional and Administrative Law from the 木瓜福利影视 of Amsterdam.