Beatrice A. Walton

Beatrice A. Walton (X) is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, where she has co-taught International Adjudication and Advanced Topics in International Law since 2023. She previously served as a judicial fellow at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. She clerked for the Hon. William J. Kayatta, Jr. (U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit) and for then-Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit). She has also served as an assistant to the U.S. member of the U.N. International Law Commission and to a defense team at the International Criminal Court. 

She has published articles and entries in the American Journal of International Law, the Yale Law Journal, the Yale Journal of International Law, Climate Law, the International Review of the Red Cross, International Maritime Boundaries, the Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights, as well as in Oxford University encyclopedias and other outlets. She serves on the editorial advisory committees of International Legal Materials and the International Law Students Association, and previously co-authored the 2020 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Problem. She received a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a Kerry Fellow at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs and a Herbert J. Hansell Fellow at Yale Law School’s Center for Global Legal Challenges. She holds an M.Phil. in International Relations & Politics with distinction from the University of Cambridge and an A.B. summa cum laude with highest honors in Government and Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia Studies from Harvard College.