32 Facts About Amal Clooney

Amal Clooney is a British-Lebanese international human rights lawyer.

Amal Clooney has held various appointments with both the United Nations and the Government of the United Kingdom.

Amal Clooney is an adjunct law professor at Columbia Law School.

Amal Clooney's father is Druze and her mother is Sunni Muslim.

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

Amal Clooney received his MBA degree at the American University of Beirut and returned to Lebanon in 1991, one year after the Lebanese Civil War ended.

Amal Clooney was a political journalist and foreign editor of the London-based newspaper al-Hayat, which is owned by Saudi Arabian prince Khalid bin Sultan Al Saud.

Amal Clooney 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.

Amal Clooney then studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she received an exhibition grant and the Shrigley Award.

Amal Clooney received the Jack J Katz Memorial Award for excellence in entertainment law.

Amal Clooney is qualified to practice law in the United States and England and Wales.

Amal Clooney was admitted to the bar in New York in 2002.

In 2010, Amal Clooney was called to the Bar of England and Wales, Inner Temple.

Amal Clooney is a practising barrister at Doughty Street Chambers.

Amal Clooney has practised at international courts in The Hague, including the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.

In 2024, Amal Clooney was the recipient of a Legal 500 lawyer of the year award in recognition of her outstanding work and contributions in the field of international law.

Amal Clooney was based in The Hague working at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, where she was Judicial assistant to Judge Patrick Robinson, Presiding Judge.

Amal Clooney worked as a Prosecutor at The Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

Amal Clooney prosecuted the case against five people, who were members of Hezbollah, accused of assassinating former Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri and others in 2005.

Amal Clooney regularly represents journalists and was appointed in 2019 as the inaugural Deputy Chair of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom by Lord Neuberger.

In November 2021, Amal Clooney was co-plaintiff's and victims' counsel in the first case in which Islamic State member, Taha al-Jumailly, was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Amal Clooney was co-plaintiff's counsel in the case against Al-Jumailly's ex-wife, German-born Islamic State member Jennifer Wenisch, for her role in crimes against humanity, war crimes and membership in a foreign terrorist organization.

Amal Clooney previously represented 126 victims of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, in a case at the International Criminal Court against Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, who was a senior leader of the pro-government "Janjaweed" fighters.

In December 2023, Amal Clooney filed a civil case on behalf of over 800 Yazidi-American plaintiffs against French cement manufacturer Lafarge for conspiring to provide material support to the Salafi jihadist group Islamic State.

Amal Clooney was appointed to a group of international legal experts by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy to advise on legal mechanisms for survivors of the conflict to claim compensation.

In May 2024, it was announced that Amal Clooney had served on an advisory panel that reviewed the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court's investigation into potential war crimes committed in the Gaza war.

In 2025, Amal Clooney was appointed Professor of Practice at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government.

Since 2015, Clooney has been a visiting faculty member as well as a senior fellow at Columbia Law School's Human Rights Institute, where she co-taught the Human Rights Course with Professor Sarah H Cleveland.

Amal Clooney has lectured students on international criminal law at the SOAS School of Law in London, The New School in New York City, The Hague Academy of International Law, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Amal and George Clooney donated $100,000 to three Lebanese charities, the Lebanese Red Cross, Impact Lebanon, and Baytna Baytak, who helped provide aid to those affected by the 2020 explosion in Beirut.

Amal Clooney is fluent in English and French and is conversational in Arabic.

In June 2017, Amal Clooney gave birth to fraternal twins: a girl and a boy, Ella and Alexander.