Amal Clooney (; ar, أمل علم الدين; born 3 February 1978) is a Lebanese and British barrister. Her clients include Filipino and American journalist Maria Ressa; former

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;

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, the founder of

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; former

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. She co-founded the Clooney Foundation for Justice with her husband,

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Early life and family

Amal Alamuddin Clooney was born in

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, Lebanon. Her first name is from أمل, ' in

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, meaning "hope". Her family left Lebanon when she was two years old, during the

Lebanese Civil War The Lebanese Civil War ( ar, الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية, translit=Al-Ḥarb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnāniyyah) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 120,000 fatalities a ...

, and settled in

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. Her father Ramzi Alamuddin, a

Lebanese Druze Lebanese Druze ( ar, دروز لبنان, durūz lubnān) are Lebanese people who are Druze. The Druze faith is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion, and an ethnoreligious esoteric group originating from the Near East who self identify as unit ...

from the Alam al-Din dynasty village of Baakline in the Chouf District, received his MBA degree at the American University of Beirut. He returned to Lebanon in 1991 after the end of the civil war. Her mother, Bariaa (

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Miknass), is from a family of

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from

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in Northern Lebanon, and is a political journalist and foreign editor of the Pan-Arab newspaper ''

al-Hayat Al-Hayat ( ar, الحياة meaning "Life") was a London-based, pan-Arab newspaper owned by Saudi Prince Khalid bin Sultan, that had a circulation estimated over 200,000. It was the newspaper of record for the Arab diaspora and the preferre ...

''. She is a founder of the public relations company International Communication Experts, which is part of a larger company that specialises in celebrity guest bookings, publicity photography, and event promotion. Clooney has three siblings: one sister and two half-brothers from her father's first marriage. Clooney attended

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, a girls'

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located in Little Chalfont,

, prior to university. She then studied at

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, where she received an

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grant and the Shrigley Award. She graduated with a

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(BA) degree in

jurisprudence Jurisprudence, or legal theory, is the theoretical study of the propriety of law. Scholars of jurisprudence seek to explain the nature of law in its most general form and they also seek to achieve a deeper understanding of legal reasoning ...

in 2000. The following year she entered

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to study for the

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(LL.M) degree. She received the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award for excellence in entertainment law. While at NYU she worked for one semester in the office of

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, then a judge for the

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for the Second Circuit and NYU Law faculty member.

Career

Clooney is qualified to practice law in the United States, and England and Wales. She was admitted to the bar in

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in 2002, and called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2010. She has also practised at international courts in

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, including the

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and the

International Criminal Court The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands. It is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individua ...

. Clooney worked at

Sullivan & Cromwell Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is an American multinational law firm headquartered in New York City. Known as a white-shoe firm, Sullivan & Cromwell is recognized as a leader in business law, and is known for its impact on international affairs, such a ...

in New York City for three years as part of the Criminal Defense and Investigations Group, where her clients included

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and

Arthur Andersen Arthur Andersen was an American accounting firm based in Chicago that provided auditing, tax advising, consulting and other professional services to large corporations. By 2001, it had become one of the world's largest multinational corporat ...

. She completed a judicial clerkship at the

in 2004, serving under Judge Vladlen S. Vereshchetin from Russia, Judge

Nabil Elaraby Nabil Elaraby (Arabic: نبيل العربي; born 15 March 1935) is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was Secretary General of the Arab League from 1 July 2011 to 3 July 2016. Previously, he was Foreign Affairs Minister of Egypt in Ess ...

from Egypt, and ad hoc Judge Sir Franklin Berman from the United Kingdom. She was subsequently based in The Hague working in the Office of the Prosecutor at the UN

Special Tribunal for Lebanon The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), also referred to as the Lebanon Tribunal or the Hariri Tribunal, is a tribunal of international character applying Lebanese criminal law to carry out the investigation and prosecution of those responsibl ...

and at the

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes in the Yugoslav Wars, war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to try ...

, where she was Judicial assistant to Judge Patrick Robinson, Presiding Judge. The case charged the former President of former Republic of Yugoslavia with crimes allegedly committed in Kosovo, Croatia, and Bosnia during the war in the former Yugoslavia. In 2010, Clooney was called to the Bar of England & Wales,

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. She is a practising barrister at Doughty Street Chambers. Clooney is ranked in the legal directories Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners as a leading barrister in international human rights law, public international law, and international criminal law. She is described as 'a brilliant legal mind' who 'handles cases of real international importance' and 'knows her brief inside out'. She is said to be a 'natural lead advocate' who is 'tactically first class' and 'a rare combination of intellectual depth and pragmatism'. The directories also spotlight her 'superb advocacy' and 'commanding presence before courts' and describe her as 'a dream performer before international tribunals'. They also emphasize that she is 'fantastically innovative' with an ability to galvanize 'heads of state, foreign ministers and business ... in a way that is very effective' for victims of human rights abuses. She is described as 'unafraid to raise novel points of law', 'very sophisticated in pushing the boundaries' and having a 'passionate commitment to the law and compassion for the people it serves'. Clooney represents clients before international courts including the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. She represents victims of mass atrocities, including genocide and sexual violence and is representing a group of Iraqi victims from the Yazidi community seeking accountability for genocide and other crimes perpetrated by ISIS, including Nobel Peace Prize Laurette, Nadia Murad. Clooney is also representing Yazidi victims in a landmark case, alleging complicity in crimes against humanity by a French company, Lafarge for allegedly funded ISIS to keep open a plant in northern Syria that operated between 2011 and 2014. In 2021, Clooney was co-plaintiff's and victims' counsel in the first case in which an ISIS member was convicted of genocide and sentenced to life in prison. Clooney regularly represents journalists and is currently leading the international counsel team acting for Filipino journalist and CEO of the news website Rappler, Maria Ressa. Ressa faces a series of legal charges that could lead to about 100 years in prison. Ressa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for her 'courageous fight for freedom of expression in the Philippines'. Clooney previously represented Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, two Reuters journalists from Myanmar who were sentenced to seven years in prison by the government for reporting on crimes committed against Rohingyas by the Myanmar forces. They were released in May 2019. Since 2015, Clooney has been a visiting faculty member and a senior fellow of

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's Human Rights Institute, where she co-teaches the Human Rights Course with Professor Sarah H. Cleveland. Clooney has also lectured students on international criminal law at the SOAS School of Law in London,

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in New York City,

The Hague Academy of International Law The Hague Academy of International Law (french: Académie de droit international de La Haye) is a center for high-level education in both public and private international law housed in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands. Courses are taug ...

, and the

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Appointments

* Appointed as Special Adviser to the International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Karim Khan QC, on Darfur. * Appointed to the UK

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Public International Law Panel (Panel C from 2014 to 2019 and Panel B from 2020), a panel of experts in international law called upon to advise and represent the UK in domestic and international courts. * Appointed as UK Special Envoy on Media Freedom (2019–2020) by the UK Foreign Secretary (2019–2020). * Appointed as Deputy Chair of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom (2019–2021) by Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, former President of the UK Supreme Court. * Member of Expert Panel of Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI) formed by former UK Foreign Secretary William Hague to gather evidence of sexual crimes committed in conflict zones. * In 2013 she was appointed to a number of United Nations commissions, including as adviser to Special Envoy

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on Syria and as Counsel to the 2013 Drone Inquiry by UN human rights rapporteur Ben Emmerson QC into the use of drones in counter-terrorism operations. * Appointed to the Human Dignity Trust Bar Panel, a small panel of barristers who act pro bono and provide advice on cases challenging discrimination against the LGBT community.

Awards and honours

* Clooney was chosen as Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating Person of 2014. At the 2014

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, she was shortlisted for Best British Style alongside

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and

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. * 2016 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. * 2018 United Nations Correspondents Association Global Citizen of the Year Award. * In 2019,

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launched the ''Amal Clooney Award'' to celebrate 'incredible young women'. * The Simon Wiesenthal Center honoured Amal and George Clooney with its Humanitarian Award at its 2020 virtual gala. * 2020 Committee to Protect Journalists Gwen Ifill Award for "extraordinary and sustained achievement in the cause of press freedom". * 2021 Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press' 'Freedom of the Press Award'. * American Society of International Law 'Champion of the International Rule of Law' Award. * In 2021, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center's recognised Amal and George Clooney for their work in social justice and modern-day freedom efforts at the International Freedom Conductor Awards Gala. *2021, Fellow of The Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet (known as the WS Society) *2022, ''

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'' magazine, Woman of the Year.

Philanthropy

Clooney is the co-founder and co-president of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, which she co-founded with her husband George Clooney in 2016. She partnered with the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative in beginning the Amal Clooney Scholarship, which was created to send one female student from Lebanon to the

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each year, to enroll in a two-year International Baccalaureate (IB) programme. Clooney and her husband sponsored a

Yazidi Yazidis or Yezidis (; ku, ئێزیدی, translit=Êzidî) are a Kurmanji-speaking endogamous minority group who are indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. The ma ...

student, Hazim Avdal, whom she met via her work with

as Avdal worked at Yazda. Avdal was attending the

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. In 2018, following the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, the Clooneys pledged $500,000 to the

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and said they would be in attendance.

Personal life

George and Amal Clooney at Cannes - 2016 (cropped)

Clooney holds dual Lebanese and British citizenship. She speaks English, French and Arabic. She became engaged to actor

on 28 April 2014. They had first met through a mutual friend in July 2013. On 7 August 2014, the couple obtained marriage licences in the

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in London. They married on 27 September 2014 in Venice's city hall (at

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), following a high-profile wedding ceremony two days earlier, also in

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. They were married by Clooney's friend

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, former mayor of Rome. The wedding was widely reported in the media. In October 2014, it was announced that the Clooneys had bought the Mill House on an island in the

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at Sonning Eye in England at a cost of around £10 million. In February 2017, it was reported by the CBS talk show '' The Talk'' that Clooney was pregnant. Friend

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confirmed the pregnancy to ''

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''. In June 2017, she gave birth to

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Works and publications

Books

* ''Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Law and Practice'', co-edited with D. Tolbert and N. Jurdi (Oxford University Press, 2014). * * Co-editor with D. Neuberger of ''Free Speech in International Law'' (2022)

Book chapters and journal articles

* "Human Rights", chapter in I. Roberts (ed.), ''Satow's Diplomatic Practice'' (7th Edition, Oxford University Press, 2017) (update for 2022 edition in progress). * "The Right to Insult in International Law?", with P. Webb, in ''Columbia Human Rights Law Review'', 2017, Vol. 48, No. 2. * * * * *

Selected articles and blogs

* Clooney, Amal (29 July 2021)
"Don't Let the Autocrats Win – How Biden Can Use the Democracy Summit to Build Back Media Freedom"
Just Security. * Clooney, Amal (17 May 2021)
"Yazidis Deserve Justice for Genocide: How Biden's Team Can Lead the Way"
Just Security. * Clooney, Amal (11 May 2021)
"An ISIS torturer was complicit in genocide. The U.S. is making it hard to bring her to justice"
''The Washington Post''. * Clooney, Amal (12 June 2020)
"A test for democracy in the Philippines"
''The Washington Post''. * Clooney, Amal (22 September 2017)
"Finally, We Have a Coordinated Effort to Bring ISIS to Justice"
''Huffington Post''. * Clooney, Amal (14 October 2015)
"Maldives Backslides Into Repression as the World Calls for President Nasheed's Release"
''Huffington Post''. * Clooney, Amal (2 August 2015)
"It Is Time for Sisi to Set Al Jazeera Journalist Mohamed Fahmy Free"
''Huffington Post''. * * Clooney, Amal (26 February 2015).
"Egypt Should Send Canadian Journalist Mohamed Fahmy Home"
''Huffington Post''. * * *

References

External links

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