Amal Clooney

Lawyer

Amal Clooney was born in Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon on February 3rd, 1978 and is the Lawyer. At the age of 46, Amal Clooney biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Amal Alamuddin, Amal
Date of Birth
February 3, 1978
Nationality
United Kingdom, Lebanon
Place of Birth
Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon
Age
46 years old
Zodiac Sign
Aquarius
Networth
$50 Million
Profession
Barrister, Human Rights Activist, Writer
Amal Clooney Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 46 years old, Amal Clooney has this physical status:

Height
174cm
Weight
57kg
Hair Color
Black
Eye Color
Dark Brown
Build
Slim
Measurements
34-24-34" or 86-61-86 cm
Amal Clooney Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Her religious beliefs are not known.
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Dr Challoner’s High School
Amal Clooney Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
George Clooney
Children
2
Dating / Affair
George Clooney (2013-Present)
Parents
Ramzi Alamuddin, Bariaa
Siblings
Samer, Ziad; Tala
Other Family
Samer (Older Paternal Half-Brother), Ziad (Older Paternal Half-Brother)
Amal Clooney Life

Amal Clooney (born 3 February 1978) is a Lebanese-British barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, specialising in international law and human rights.

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is among her clients; Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine's former prime minister; Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy; and Nobel Prize Laureate Nadia Murad.

Early life and family

Amal Alamuddin Clooney was born in Beirut, Lebanon. Her first name is amal in Arabic, which means "hope."

Her family immigrated to Lebanon when she was two years old, during the Lebanese Civil War, and settled in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. Ramzi Alamuddin, a Lebanese Druze from Baakline's Chouf District, earned his MBA degree from the American University of Beirut. After the liberation war, he returned to Lebanon in 1991. Bariaa (née Miknass) is a mother of a Sunni Muslims from Tripoli, Northern Lebanon, and she is a political journalist and foreign editor of the Pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat. She is the founder of International Communication Experts, a multinational company that specializes in celebrity guest bookings, public relations, and event promotion.

Clooney has three children: one sister and two half-brothers from her father's first marriage.

Before attending university, Clooney attended Dr Challoner's High School, a girls' grammar school located in Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire. She then studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she received an exhibition grant and the Shrigley Award. In 2000, she earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in jurisprudence. Following the year, she began attending the Master of Laws (LL.M) degree at New York University School of Law. She was honoured with the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award for excellence in entertainment law. She spent a semester at NYU in the office of Sonia Sotomayor, then as a judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a member of the NYU Law faculty.

Personal life

Clooney is fluent in English and French, as well as conversational in Arabic.

On April 28, 2014, she proposed to actor George Clooney. They first met through a mutual friend in July 2013. The couple obtained marriage licenses in Kensington and Chelsea, London, on August 7, 2014. They married in Venice's city hall on September 27th, 2014 (at Ca' Farsetti), two days after a high-profile wedding reception two days earlier, also in Venice. Clooney's cousin Walter Veltroni, the former mayor of Rome, married them. The wedding was widely covered in the media. The Clooneys had purchased the Mill House on an island in Sonning Eye, England, costing around £10 million.

It was announced by CBS talk show The Talk that Clooney was pregnant in February 2017. To Entertainment Tonight, friend Matt Damon announced the pregnancy. She gave birth to fraternal twins in June 2017.

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Amal Clooney Career

Career

Clooney is licensed to practice law in the United States, England, and Wales. She was admitted to the bar in New York in 2002 and then admitted to the Bar of England and Wales in 2010. She has also worked at international courts in The Hague, including the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.

Clooney spent three years with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City as part of the Criminal Defense and Investigations Group, where her clients included Enron and Arthur Andersen.

Judge Nabil Elaraby from Egypt, Judge Nabil Elaraby from Egypt, and Ad hoc Judge Sir Franklin Berman from the United Kingdom completed a judicial clerkship at the International Court of Justice in 2004.

She was then based in The Hague, working in the Office of the Prosecutor's in Lebanon and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, where she served as Judicial assistant to Judge Patrick Robinson, Presiding Judge. During the conflict in former Yugoslavia, the case charged the former President of the former Yugoslavia with violent crimes committed in Kosovo, Croatia, and Bosnia.

Clooney was called to the Bar of England & Wales in Inner Temple in 2010. She is a practising barrister at Doughty Street Chambers. Clooney is ranked as a leading barrister in international human rights law, international treaty, and international criminal law. She is described as a "brillant legal mind" who "handles cases of real international significance" and "knows her briefing inside out." She is described as a "natural lead advocate" and a "rare combination of intellectual bread and pragmatism" in a 'tactically first class' and a 'true combination of intellectual breadth and pragmatism. The directors also emphasize her "superb advocacy" and "commanding presence before the courts," as they also refer to her as a "dream performer" before international tribunals. They also claim that she is 'fantastically innovative' with the ability to mobilize 'heads of state, foreign ministers, and industry... in a way that is especially helpful to victims of human rights abuses. She has been described as 'unafraid to raise novel points of legislation,'very innovative in pushing the boundaries, and with a 'passionate dedication to the law and compassion for the people it serves'.

Clooney represents clients in international courts, including the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights. She represents a group of Iraqi civilians wounded by ISIS, including genocide and sexual violence, and she is a spokesperson for Nobel Peace Prize Laurette Nadia Murad. In a landmark lawsuit, Clooney is now representing Yazidi victims, alleging complicity in crimes against humanity perpetrated by a French firm called Lafarge for reportedly funding ISIS to keep open a plant in northern Syria that existed between 2011 and 2014. Clooney was co-plaintiff's and victims' counsel in the first case in which an ISIS member was found guilty of genocide and sentenced to life in prison in 2021.

Clooney regularly appears in newspapers and is currently in charge of the international counsel team representing Filipino journalist and CEO Maria Ressa, a news organisation. Ressa is facing a string of criminal charges that could result in up to 100 years in prison. Ressa was given the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for her 'courageous struggle for expression in the Philippines.' Clooney was previously for Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, two Myanmar journalists who were sentenced to seven years in jail for reporting on Myanmar's attacks against Rohingyas. They were first introduced in May 2019.

Clooney has been a visiting faculty member and a senior fellow at Columbia Law School'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, The Hague Academy of International Law in New York City, The Hague Academy of International Law, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Amal Clooney Awards

Awards and honours

  • Clooney was chosen as Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating Person of 2014. At the 2014 British Fashion Awards, she was shortlisted for Best British Style alongside David Beckham, Kate Moss, Keira Knightley and Emma Watson.
  • 2016 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
  • 2018 United Nations Correspondents Association Global Citizen of the Year Award.
  • In 2019, Prince Charles 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, Time magazine, Woman of the Year.

On a night out at the Chiltern Firehouse, Amal Clooney showcases her impeccable sense of style in thigh-high PVC boots and faux fur coat

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 7, 2024
Amal Clooney stepped out in a new chic outfit for a night out at the Chiltern Firehouse in London on Wednesday, ensuring that all attention was on her. In a cream minidress under a fluffy faux-fur coat, the human rights lawyer, 46, exuded elegance. With a crocodile skin pattern that spanned her mid-thigh, she gave her a modern edge to her look with black PVC boots.

Due to a lack of interest, the women-only clubhouse that provided high-flying Londoners the opportunity to rub shoulders with Amal Clooney and Gloria Estefan for £8,000 a year

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 10, 2024
Chief, an American company that was established in New York City in 2019, opened its first overseas headquarters in London in February 2023, aiming to attract high-flying people to a Georgian townhouse in Bloomsbury, promising to establish an exclusive network. Memberships cost £7,900 per year, and gave those who joined the company, mainly corporate executives, the opportunity to network with other executives from around the world.

Amal Clooney is smitten with St Bernard puppy given to her by husband George for her birthday - but he's already a real armful

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 10, 2024
They have several large mansions in spectacular locations around the world, and George and Amal Clooney are likely to be extra-grateful for all the space, given the new addition to their family. Nelson, the actor's 46th birthday presenter, to his wife, was reportedly a surprise 46th birthday gift from him. The adorable puppy was already more than a handful for civil rights lawyer Amal as the pair took him for a stroll through Cotignac's picturesque village streets.

Amal Clooney's Husband, George, Never Expected To Be The Parent Of Twins At 56 -- 'You Always Have To Just Enjoy The Ride'

perezhilton.com, August 29, 2017
Life is quite different for George Clooney these days!Not only is the longtime bachelor married to one of the most badass women in the game, but he’s also a new parent to two adorable babies, twins Alexander and Ella!Related: George Goes After Paps Who Illegally Snapped Pics Of His Twins!Amal Clooney‘s husband joked to AP of the new additions to their household in a recent interview: "I just have to sanitize the barf off my tux." It used to be my barf, but now it is the twins' barf. So it all works out."