Dr Rebecca Mitchell is a Professor of Law at Northumbria Law School. Rebecca is a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College and the UKRI Talent Peer Review College. She has been involved with a number of law journals as guest editor, section editor and reviewer, including as Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Evidence and Proof.

Rebecca has won funding from the Modern Law Review on two occasions to support seminars, in July 2022 and in April 2024, bringing practitioners and academics together to debate various aspects of Legal Professional Privilege. In October 2023 Rebecca won funding from the Leverhulme Trust to bring a leading Evidence academic from the United States, Professor Henry Zhuaho Wang, to the Law School for three months. Rebecca is currently involved in Project Odyssey-opening the National Archive's legal data to AI for A2J, funded by Innovate UK. 

Rebecca's primary research interests relate to the operation of legal professional privilege (LPP) and related ethical issues in a variety of contexts such as corporate governance, taxation, legal technology, deferred prosecution agreements and legal advice to Government. LPP is an under researched evidential area yet has a significant and far-reaching impact on society and is of fundamental importance to all lawyers. Rebecca has been published in a range of national and international journals of the highest quality, including the International Journal of Evidence and Proof and the Modern Law Review.

Rebecca is currently undertaking research focussed on expert evidence in cell site geolocation . She will be presenting at the 2nd Michele Taruffo Girona Evidence week in early June 2025.