Nicky Touw holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Groningen and an LLB (cum laude) from the University of Amsterdam. After obtaining her LLM in criminal law from the University of Amsterdam in 2014, she worked for several law firms in the Netherlands as a paralegal and later as an attorney specializing in financial and corporate criminal law. In June 2025, she successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled "Access to Evidence and the Regulation of Corporate Human Rights Violations," at the Open University in Heerlen.
