<span class="vcard">Beatrice Walton</span>

Beatrice Walton

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Beatrice Walton (@beawalton) holds a JD from Yale Law School. From 2018-19, she served as judicial fellow at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, where she clerked for H.E. Judge Kirill Gevorgian and H.E. Judge (ad hoc) Leonid Skotnikov. She has also served as an assistant at the UN International Law Commission. In law school, Beatrice was a Kerry Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and a Herbert J. Hansell student fellow at the Center for Global Legal Challenges. Before law school, she obtained an M.Phil. (with distinction) in International Relations & Politics from the University of Cambridge, where her research focused on Russian approaches to international law, and an A.B. (summa cum laude) in Government & Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia Studies from Harvard College. She co-authored the 2020 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition problem.

 

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US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar shake hands after signing a peace agreement during a ceremony in the Qatari capital Doha on February 29, 2020.
A woman wears a mask and holds a banner reading "Chemical massacre in Syria" on August 28, 2013 outside the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, during a demonstration against the mass killings in Syria. The poster also shows photos of children that died.
Assyrian Christians, who had fled the unrest in Syria and Iraq, attend a prayer for the 220 Assyrian Christians abducted by Islamic State group jihadists from villages in northeastern Syria in recent days, at the Saint Georges Assyrian Church in Jdeideh, northeast of the Lebanese capital Beirut on February 26, 2015. One person holds a sign reading, “Assyrian Genocide 1915 Never Again!”
The top of the U.S. Supreme Court building.

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