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Poston, Thomas

Thomas Poston

Associate

[email protected]
Direct Tel: +1 202 538 8317
Washington, D.C.
Tel: +1 202 538 8000 Fax: +1 202 538 8100

Thomas Poston is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s Washington, D.C., office.  He joined the firm in 2024 after graduating from Yale Law School. 

Thomas’s writing on international and environmental law has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, and the Washington Post, among other publications. He previously served as a Fulbright research scholar in Cambodia.

  • Yale Law School
    (J.D., 2024)
    • Yale Journal on Regulation:
      • Bulletin Editor
    • Yale Journal of International Law:
      • Articles Editor
    • Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court
      • First Place, U.S. National Round
  • Wake Forest University
    (B.A., summa cum laude, Politics and Economics, 2018)
    • Phi Beta Kappa

The District of Columbia Bar

  • War Reparations: The Case for Countermeasures, 76 Stan. L. Rev. 54 (2024) (with Oona Hathaway & Maggie Mills)
  • The Methane Majors: Climate Change and Animal Agriculture in U.S. Courts, 49 Colum. J. Env’t L. 145 (2024) (with Daina Bray)