Leah West is an assistant professor of International Affairs (National Security and Intelligence) at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, where she teaches national security law, counterterrorism, and public international law. She completed her SJD at the University of Toronto in 2020, where she studied the application of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to state conduct in cyberspace. Beyond her SJD, Leah obtained an LLM in International Humanitarian and National Security from the University of Ottawa; a JD from the University of Toronto; an MA in Intelligence from the American Military University; and is a graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada. She previously worked as a National Security lawyer with the Department of Justice and served for a decade as an officer in the Canadian Army.