Beatrice Walton
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Beatrice Walton is an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, 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 for the Honorable William J. Kayatta Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She also served as a Judicial Fellow at the International Court of Justice. She has been a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School since Fall 2023.
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