Amal Clooney Biography

Amal Alamuddin, best known as Amal Clooney is a Lebanese-British attorney with Doughty Street Chambers specializing in international law and human rights. She is also known as the wife of the film actor and director George Clooney. She worked for one semester in Sonia Sotomayor’s office, then a judge at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second District. She is also an activist and writer. Amal received the Entertainment Law Jack J. Katz Memorial Award from the New York University School of Law.

She worked in a number of United Nations commissions and in the prosecution of the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Amal was also appointed Special Envoy for Freedom of the Media by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2019, but stepped down from that role in 2020.

Brief facts about Amal Clooney

Famous for

• As a Lebanese-British attorney with Doughty Street Chambers.
• For being the wife of actor and director George Clooney.

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What is Amal Clooney nationality?

Amal Clooney was born on February 3, 1978 with the real name Amal Alamuddin in Beirut, Lebanon. She is of Lebanese-British nationality and belongs to a mixed race because she is of Lebanese-Arab and Lebanese Druze ancestry. Her family left Lebanon when she was two years old during the Lebanese Civil War and settled in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. She follows the Muslim religion. Amal celebrated her 43rd birthday in 2021 and according to her date of birth, her zodiac sign is Aquarius. So their race is white. Her father, Ramzi Alamuddin, a Lebanese Druze from the village of the Alam-al-Din dynasty in Baakline in the Chouf district, received his MBA from the American University of Beirut. In 1991 he returned to Lebanon. Her mother Bariaa (née Miknass) comes from a Sunni family from Tripoli in northern Lebanon and is a political journalist and foreign editor for the pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat. Clooney has three siblings: a sister and two half-brothers from her father’s first marriage.

As for Amal’s education, she attended the Dr. Challoner’s High School and then studied at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, where she received an exhibition scholarship and the Shrigley Award. She completed her law studies in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). The following year she went to New York University School of Law for a Master of Laws (LL.M) degree.

What does Amal Clooney do for a living?

• Amal Clooney started her career with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City for three years as part of the Criminal Defense and Investigations Group while practicing law in the United States and the United Kingdom. She was admitted to the bar in New York in 2002 and in England and Wales in 2010. She has also practiced in international courts in The Hague, including the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.
• In 2004 she also completed a legal traineeship at the International Court of Justice with Judge Vladlen S. Vereshchetin from Russia. She then worked in The Hague in the public prosecutor’s office at the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon and at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
• In 2010 she returned to the UK, where she worked as a lawyer in London with Doughty Street Chambers and was appointed to a number of United Nations commissions in 2013.

to teach

• Amal was visiting professor and Senior Fellow at the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School during the academic semesters in spring 2015 and 2016.
• She was a co-professor with Sarah H. Cleveland on the Cleveland Human Rights course and taught human rights litigation to students in the school’s human rights clinic.
• She also taught at Columbia Law School in spring 2018, again as a co-professor with Sarah H. Cleveland, who held a core class on human rights.
• She has also lectured on international criminal law at SOAS Law School in London, New School in New York City, Hague Academy of International Law and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Notable cases

• Amal assisted the Permanent Court of Arbitration in 2011 in the arbitration proceedings between Merck Sharp and Dohme and the Republic of Ecuador.
• In 2004 she represented the Canadian Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy, who was being held with other journalists in Egypt.
• In January 2015 she began recognizing the Armenian Genocide and represented Armenia on behalf of Doughty Street Chambers along with Geoffrey Robertson QC.
• She filed a case against the government of the Republic of the Philippines on March 8, 2015, before the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
• On April 7, 2015, it was announced that she would be part of the legal team defending Mohamed Nasheed.
• Clooney began work on the recently reopened Hooded Men case in June 2015, which the Irish government brought against the UK government in the European Court of Human Rights. She worked with Irish Foreign Secretary Charles Flanagan on the case while the court denied the last appeal on the case in September 2018.
• In 2016 it became known that Clooney will represent the Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova before the European Court of Human Rights.
• In September 2016, she spoke to the United Nations for the first time at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to discuss her decision made in June 2016 to represent Nadia Murad as a client in legal proceedings against ISIL commanders .
• Amal began representing the Maldives in the persecution of the Rohingya at the United Nations International Court of Justice in February 2020.

Events

• On February 25, 2014, the UK Attorney General appointed Amal to the C-Panel of the Public International Law Panel of Counsel for the period 2014 to 2019.
• She was a signatory to UNICEF UK and Jemima Khan’s open letter in May 2014 calling for “UK government action to protect women and children”.
• She was appointed Special Envoy from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office in April 2019 and Vice-Chair of the High-Level Panel on Freedom of the Media in July of the following year.
• She later resigned as a special envoy because of the UK government’s intention to violate international law in Brexit in September 2020. She remains the deputy chairperson of the high-level body.

Awards and Achievements

• Amal was voted the Most Fascinating Person of 2014 by Barbara Walters.
• Prince Charles launched the Amal Clooney Award in 2019 to celebrate “incredible young women”.
• The Simon Wiesenthal Center honored Amal and George Clooney with the Humanitarian Award at its 2020 virtual gala.
• On November 19, 2020, the Committee for the Protection of Journalists presented her with the Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award, which is presented annually to a person who has made exceptional and sustained achievements for press freedom.

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Works and publications

• Principles of Evidence in International Criminal Justice
• Journal of International Criminal Justice
• The newsletter from lawyers in Libya
• The lawyer
• Report from the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association (IBAHRI), supported by the Arab regional office of the Open Society Foundations
• Contemporary challenges for the International Criminal Court.
• The Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Law and Practice
• Huffington Post
• The guard
• Huffington Post
• The right to a fair trial in international law

Who is Amal Clooney’s husband?

Amal Clooney is a married woman. She got engaged to actor George Clooney on April 28, 2014, whom she met in July 2013 through a mutual friend. The couple received their marriage licenses in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London when they tied the knot in the city of Venice on September 27, 2014 in Hall (at Ca ‘Farsetti), after a high profile wedding ceremony two days earlier, also in Venice. They were married to Clooney’s friend Walter Veltroni, the former mayor of Rome.

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The two later became parents to fraternal twins named Alexander and Ella Clooney in June 2017. George and Amal are still together. The couple never broke up. As for Amal’s sexual orientation, she’s straight.

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What is the net worth of Amal Clooney?

Amal Clooney is a versatile woman who has a net worth of $ 50 million as of 2021, while her exact salary has not yet been disclosed. She has made a lot of money from her job because her main source of income is her career as a lawyer, activist, writer, court clerk and book editor. In addition, in October 2014 it was announced that the Clooneys had bought the Mill House on an island in the Thames near Sonning Eye in England for around £ 10 million.

Amal Clooney

Amal Clooney stands at an ideal height of 5 feet 8½ inches or 174 cm with a balanced body weight of 57 kg or 126 pounds. She has black hair and dark brown eyes. Amal has a slim build, 34-24-34 inches or 86-61-86 cm in height. She had worked incredibly on her limbs to fit into short dresses. She has an amazingly slim figure.