Marlou Overheul (1992) has been affiliated with Utrecht University since 2020 and is currently an Assistant Professor. She graduated in 2017 at Utrecht University, after obtaining her Bachelor of Laws (cum laude) and Master of Private Law (cum laude). She worked as a researcher at the Dutch Supreme Court for more than two years, after which she returned to Utrecht University in 2020 as a PhD Candidate. She defended her PhD thesis successfully in 2025. 

During her studies, she worked as a student assistant at the Molengraaff Institute for Private Law and the Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law (UCALL). In the latter capacity, she collaborated on a study on the preliminary ruling procedure at the Dutch Supreme Court. She also did internships at law firms in Amsterdam and New York and at the Dutch Permanent Representation to the United Nations in Geneva. 

Currently, Marlou is a member of the editorial board of ANWB Verkeersrecht. Previously, she served as an editor for the legal journals Ars Aequi and Letsel & Schade. She was also the editorial secretary of the Dutch Journal of Civil Law, and is still an employee of this journal. She is also a lecturer for practitioners at Studiecentrum Kerckebosch. 

Marlou stayed at KU Leuven (2017) as a visiting researcher and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies of Oxford University (Trintiy Term, 2023) as a recognised student. For the latter stay, she received the REBO Visiting Fellowship Grant. Subsequently, in 2025, she spent some time at the VU Antwerp and the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford. 

Marlou also obtained the propaedeutic year at the Utrechts Conservatorium (Bachelor of Music, saxophone).