The following alumni of the Furman Scholars Program are currently on the academic hiring market.
Rebecca Talbott '10
Rebecca Talbott is a research fellow at Stanford Law School. She focuses her research on constitutional criminal procedure, evidence, and criminal law.
Rebecca earned her law degree, magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern 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 clerked for the Honorable Stanley Marcus of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and for the Honorable John Gleeson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Rebecca served for over four years as an Assistant Federal Public Defender with the Federal Public Defender's Office for the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, in Baltimore, MD, where she represented indigent clients charged with federal felony crimes, handling the representation from charging through trial. She conducted motions hearings on a broad array of legal and evidentiary issues, and jury trials in cases involving charges of extortion-murder, credit card fraud, illegal shootings, gun possession, and drug distribution.
Prior to her position at Stanford, Rebecca was a civil rights litigator at MacDonald Hoague and Bayless in Seattle, WA, with a particular emphasis on police misconduct and other governmental abuses of power. Before that, Rebecca was a visiting law lecturer at the University of Washington School of Law, teaching Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing. Before working at the Federal Public Defender's Office, Rebecca practiced criminal litigation at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, LLP, in New York City, with attorney Barry Berke.
Before law school, Rebecca served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Tanzania, teaching mathematics at a public secondary school. She speaks advanced Kiswahili and conversational French. She summited Mt. Kilimanjaro with sixteen of her Tanzanian students.