Professor Theriault holds a doctoral degree from Laval University (LL.D. 2009), for which she earned a doctoral scholarship from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Washington in Seattle (2004-2005) and at the University of Victoria (2005-2007). From 2015-2017, she served as Vice-Dean of Graduate Studies in Law at the University of Ottawa. She also served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Louis LeBel at the Supreme Court of Canada in 2002-2003.