Emmaly attended both the Bachelor European Law School and the Master Business Law at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. During her bachelor's, she did an internship in the Corporate/M&A department of the law firms Simmons & Simmons and Jones Day, and studied for a semester at Soongsil University in Seoul, South Korea.

She wrote her master's thesis on the possibility of holding an entirely virtual shareholders' meeting under Dutch law.