Amal Clooney
Language(s):
English, French, Arabic
Amal Clooney | Attorney
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About Amal
Amal Clooney is an international law and human rights lawyer. In 2000, she earned a BA in Jurisprudence from St. Hugh’s College in Oxford. She then completed an LLM at the New York University School of Law. While at NYU, Clooney worked for judge Sonia Sotomayor at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
After graduating from NYU, Clooney was admitted to the New York Bar in 2002. She worked at the firm Sullivan & Cromwell for three years in the Criminal Defense and Investigations Group. Her notable clients included Enron and Arthur Andersen.
Clooney then relocated to The Hague. In 2004, she completed a clerkship at the International Court of Justice. She clerked under judges from Russia, Egypt, and the United Kingdom. Clooney then transitioned to the Office of the Prosecutor at the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon and the International Criminal Tribunal for (former) Yugoslavia.
In 2010, Clooney moved to Britain. She worked as a barrister in London at Doughty Street Chambers. She served as advisor to Special Envoy Kofi Annan and as Counsel to the 2013 Drone Inquiry by Ben Emmerson QC, a human rights rapporteur for the UN.
Throughout her career, Clooney’s notable clients include Abdallah Al Senussi, Yulia Tymoshenko, and Julian Assange. She also represented the state of Cambodia and advised the King of Bahrain.
In addition to practicing law, Clooney has taught legal courses. She was a visiting teacher at Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute in 2015 and 2016, and taught a human rights litigation course at the Human Rights Clinic. Clooney has lectured on the topic of international criminal law at the Law School of the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London, the New School, The Hague Academy of International Law, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
After graduating from NYU, Clooney was admitted to the New York Bar in 2002. She worked at the firm Sullivan & Cromwell for three years in the Criminal Defense and Investigations Group. Her notable clients included Enron and Arthur Andersen.
Clooney then relocated to The Hague. In 2004, she completed a clerkship at the International Court of Justice. She clerked under judges from Russia, Egypt, and the United Kingdom. Clooney then transitioned to the Office of the Prosecutor at the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon and the International Criminal Tribunal for (former) Yugoslavia.
In 2010, Clooney moved to Britain. She worked as a barrister in London at Doughty Street Chambers. She served as advisor to Special Envoy Kofi Annan and as Counsel to the 2013 Drone Inquiry by Ben Emmerson QC, a human rights rapporteur for the UN.
Throughout her career, Clooney’s notable clients include Abdallah Al Senussi, Yulia Tymoshenko, and Julian Assange. She also represented the state of Cambodia and advised the King of Bahrain.
In addition to practicing law, Clooney has taught legal courses. She was a visiting teacher at Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute in 2015 and 2016, and taught a human rights litigation course at the Human Rights Clinic. Clooney has lectured on the topic of international criminal law at the Law School of the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London, the New School, The Hague Academy of International Law, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Education
St. Hugh's College
BA (Jurisprudence)
2000
Recognitions & Achievements
Honors / Awards
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Shrigley Award, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford
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Jack J. Katz Memorial Award for excellence in entertainment law
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British Fashion Awards ()2014
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Barbara Walters’ Most Fascinating Person ()2015
Notable Work
Publications
Alamuddin, Amal and Philippa Webb. . “Expanding Jurisdiction Over War Crimes Under Article 8 of the ICC Statute.” Journal of International Criminal Justice. 8, no. 5: –.
2010 / 1219 / 1243
Alamuddin, Amal. April “Does Libya Have to Surrender Saif Al-slam Gaddafi to The Hague? Mizaan: The Newsletter from Lawyers for Justice in Libya. Issue 1.
2012
Alamuddin, Amal. December . “Will Syria go to the ICC?” The Lawyer magazine.
2012
Alamuddin, Amal and Nadia Hardman, Report of the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), supported by the Open Society Foundations Arab Regional Office. Separating Law and Politics: Challenges to the Independence of Judges and Prosecutors in Egypt. IBAHRI, February .
2014
Alamuddin, Amal, Nidal Nabil Jurdi, and David Tolbert, eds. The Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Law and Practice. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, .
2014
Alamuddin, Amal. 19 August . The Anatomy of an Unfair Trial. Huffington Post.
2014
Clooney, Amal. 30 April . “Release Mohamed Nasheed – an innocent man and the Maldives’ great hope.” The Guardian.
2015
Clooney, Amal. 14 October . Maldives Backslides into Repression as the World Calls for President Nasheed’s Release. Huffington Post.
2015
Clooney, Amal, and H. Morrison and P. Webb. The Right to a Fair Trial in International Law. Oxford University Press: .
2016