Amal Clooney is a Lebanese-British barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, specializing in international law and human rights. Her clients include Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, in his fight against extradition; the former prime minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko; Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy; and Nobel Prize laureate Nadia Murad. In 2019, Amal was appointed the special envoy on media freedom by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Amal Clooney's Fringe Dress Is Summer Date Night in a Nutshell
Amal and George Clooney joined their friends Stella McCartney and Alasdhair Willis for dinner in Lake Como, and Amal has dressed appropriately in a fringe-trimmed mini from the English designer. Just imagine going out to grab a bite to eat with your gal pal, fielding compliments left and right about your outfit. All you have to do is turn to your BFF, point a finger, and say, "Thanks, she made it!" But of course, the way the human rights activist and lawyer styles her ensembles is the real kicker. Stella might have created her dress, (which, BTW, is a beautiful shade somewhere in between pink and champagne), but Amal selected her beaded drop earrings, her Gabriela Hearst Nina Bag with rose gold hardware, and matching metallic, strappy shoes, which she casually removed to board a boat.
Famous for
- Lebanese-British barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, specializing in international law and human rights.
Early Life of Amal Clooney
Where was Amal Clooney born?
Amal Clooney was born on 3 February 1978 in Beirut, Lebanon. Her family left Lebanon when she was two years old, during the Lebanese Civil War, and settled in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. She holds British-Lebanese nationality with mixed ethnicity. She was born to her father Ramzi Alam Uddin who was the owner of COMET travel agency and her mother Bariaa Miknass who is a well-known political journalist. She has three siblings—one sister, Tala, and two half-brothers, Samer and Ziad, from her father's first marriage.
Regarding her education, Amal attended Dr. Challoner's High School, a girls' grammar school in Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire. She then studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she received an Exhibition and the Shrigley Award. In 2000, Clooney graduated with a BA degree in Jurisprudence (Oxford's equivalent to the LLB) from St Hugh's College, Oxford. In 2001, she attended New York University School of Law to study for the LLM degree where she received the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award for excellence in entertainment law.
Body Measurement of Amal Clooney
How tall is Amal Clooney?
Lebanese-British human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has a beautiful body figure and she stands 5ft 8.5in tall with a weight of 57kg.
Career of Amal Clooney
- Amal is qualified to practice as a lawyer in the United States and the United Kingdom.
- Amal worked at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City for three years as part of the Criminal Defense and Investigations Group.
- In 2004, she completed a judicial clerkship at the International Court of Justice.
- She was subsequently based in The Hague working in the Office of the Prosecutor at the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon and at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
- Amal returned to Britain in 2010, where she became a barrister in London (Bar of England & Wales, Inner Temple) at Doughty Street Chambers.
- In 2013, Clooney was appointed to a number of United Nations commissions, including as adviser to Special Envoy Kofi Annan 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.
- In 2014, Amal represented Canadian Al Jazeera English journalist Mohamed Fahmy who, along with other journalists, was being held in Egypt.
- On 25 February 2014, the UK Attorney General's Office appointed Clooney for the period 2014 to 2019 to the C Panel of the Public International Law Panel of Counsel
- In October 2014, Clooney was hired in an attempt to repatriate the ancient Greek sculptures the Elgin Marbles.
- In January 2015, Amal began work on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
- On 7 April 2015, it was announced that Clooney would be part of the legal team defending Mohamed Nasheed, former President of the Maldives, in his ongoing arbitrary detention though Nasheed was sentenced to 13 years in jail on March 2015.
- In June 2015, Clooney began work on the recently re-opened Hooded Men case brought by the Irish government against the British government in the European Court of Human Rights.
- In January 2016, Clooney gave a series of interviews about the UN-condemned trial and imprisonment of Nasheed and put forth efforts to support imposing sanctions on the Maldives.
- In 2016, it was announced that Clooney would represent Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova at the European Court of Human Rights.
- In April 2019, Clooney became a special envoy at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, advising the Secretary of State, Jeremy Hunt on global media freedom.
Additionally,
- She was a co-professor with Sarah H. Cleveland in Cleveland's course on human rights and taught a class on human rights litigation to students in the school's Human Rights Clinic
- Clooney taught at Columbia Law School for the semester 2018, again as a co-professor with Sarah H. Cleveland on a core class on human rights.
Personal Life of Amal Clooney
Who is Amal Clooney married to?
Amal Clooney is married to an actor George Clooney 27 September 2014 in Venice's city hall. They were married by Clooney's friend Walter Veltroni, former mayor of Rome. The wedding was widely reported in the media. In June 2017, she gave birth to daughter Ella and son Alexander.
Additionally, She has not publicly discussed her religion as her father is a Lebanese Druze and her mother is Muslim. But her husband said in an interview that she is not religious at all.
Birthday of Amal Clooney
Amal Clooney celebrates her birthday on the 3rd of February with her friends and family.
Net worth of Amal Clooney
Lebanese-British human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has a net worth of $10 Million.
