Beatrice A. Walton is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and an Associate at Debevoise & Plimpton, where she practices in the Litigation Department and in the firm’s International Dispute Resolution and Public International Law Groups. She previously clerked for the Honorable Debra A. Livingston of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable William J. Kayatta Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. From 2018 to 2019, she was a Judicial Fellow at the International Court of Justice. Walton has authored articles and short commentary in a variety of publications, including the American Journal of International Law, the International Review of the Red Cross, and the Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights, among others. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was an Editor of the Yale Law Journal and Executive Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. She earned an M.Phil. with distinction from the University of Cambridge and an A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard College.