Rebecca Talbott

Criminal Procedure

Professor Talbott is a criminal procedure scholar studying the constitutional constraints governing police interrogation and self-incrimination. She joins USD Law following her role as a Fellow at Stanford Law School's Constitutional Law Center, where she also held the role of Acting Executive Director and taught a 1L Seminar that she co-created. Previously, she taught legal analysis, research, and writing at the University of Washington School of Law.

Professor Talbott clerked for the Honorable Stanley Marcus, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, and for the Honorable John Gleeson, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York. She also practiced law as a criminal defense litigator at the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Baltimore, Maryland, and at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in New York, and as a civil rights litigator at MacDonald Hoague & Bayless in Seattle. Her scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the NYU Law Review, the UC Davis Law Review, and the Washington State Bar News.

Professor Talbott holds a JD from NYU School of Law, magna cum laude, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern public interest scholar, a Furman Scholar, and an executive editor on the NYU Law Review, and received the Judge Abraham Lieberman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in criminal law. She earned her BA in philosophy with honors and distinction, with a minor in mathematics, from Stanford University. Professor Talbott's forthcoming article, Implied Promises in Police Interrogation, in the UC Davis Law Review, has been selected by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) as the 2026 winner of the Junior Scholars Paper Competition Award for the Section on Criminal Procedure.