She acquired her PhD in law at Queen Mary University of London in 2011 for a thesis on the United Nations Human Rights Council.
[5] Her first book was The United Nations Human Rights Council: A Critique and Early Assessment, based on her PhD research, and published by Routledge in 2013.
[6] In 2014, she published a further book relating to her research titled Failing to Protect: The UN and the Politicisation of Human Rights.
[10][11] She spoke at an event at the Edinburgh Law School, which attracted media coverage for the gender critical views advanced by Freedman and other speakers, including Jo Phoenix.
Freedman is an Associate Member of 4-5 Gray's Inn Square, a set of barristers' chambers in London.