Rebecca Talbott is a legal scholar whose research focuses on constitutional criminal procedure, evidence, and criminal law.

Rebecca is currently a non-resident fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. She was previously a residential research fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center and a visiting law lecturer at the University of Washington School of Law. In 2023, she served as acting executive director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center.

Prior to her academic appointments, Rebecca practiced law as a criminal litigator, including for over four years as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in Baltimore, Maryland. She also practiced affirmative civil rights litigation in Seattle, Washington.

Rebecca earned her law degree, magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar and Furman Scholar and an executive editor on the New York University Law Review. She earned her B.A. in Philosophy, with Honors and Distinction, and a Minor in Mathematics, from Stanford University.

After law school, Rebecca served as a law clerk to Judge Stanley Marcus of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and to Judge John Gleeson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.