Rebecca Mitchell

Rebecca Mitchell is a Professor of Law at Northumbria Law School, Northumbria University. She specializes in legal professional privilege (LPP), corporate governance, taxation, legal technology, and expert evidence in cell site geolocation. Her research addresses ethical and evidentiary challenges in modern legal practice. She currently leads Project Odyssey, leveraging AI to enhance access to justice via National Archive legal data, funded by Innovate UK.

Education: She holds a PhD from Northumbria University titled 'Legal professional privilege in the 21st Century: identifying failures to develop this evidential rule to meet the challenges of modernity and presenting solutions aligned to its rationale' (2023).

Research interests include LPP’s societal impact, digital forensics, and legal education innovation. Recent work focuses on cross-border digital evidence handling and legal technology integration in pedagogy. She secured grants from the Modern Law Review (2022, 2024) and Leverhulme Trust (2023) to foster academic-practitioner dialogue and international collaboration.

Professional roles: Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Evidence and Proof, and member of UKRI Talent Peer Review College. She presents at global conferences, including the 2025 Michele Taruffo Girona Evidence Week on cell site geolocation.