Julian Watrous

Julian Watrous is a Just Security Student Staff Editor and a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where he is a member of the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic. At Yale, he has served as a Vice President of the National Security Group and as an Editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation and the Yale Journal of International Law. Julian spent his 2L summer at Cleary Gottlieb and his 1L summer in Lazard’s sovereign advisory practice in Paris.

Prior to law school, Julian began his career at the U.S. Treasury Department, where he worked on international economic policy issues in the Western Hemisphere office and Treasury’s International Climate Task Force. He also worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Markets Group, where his work focused on international markets and foreign central banks.

Julian received a B.A. from Stanford University in 2019, graduating with honors, and completed an MSc, graduating with distinction in International Political Economy, at the London School of Economics.