 She did her postgraduate studies as a Marshall Scholar at King's College, Cambridge, earning a Ph.D. in English in 2002.Also in 2002, Yale Law School awarded Emens her J.D.After graduating from law school, Emens served as a law clerk for Judge Robert D. Sack on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 2002 to 2003, and then, from 2003 to 2005, as a Bigelow Fellow & Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School.