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Amal Clooney is a British international human rights lawyer, academic, and advocate for justice, recognized for her work with high-profile clients and global initiatives.
The Clooney Foundation for Justice fights for human rights and justice globally, ensuring accountability and support for victims.
Amal Clooney is a barrister who specializes in international law and human rights. She is ranked in the legal directories Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners.
Amal Clooney was a celebrity closing Main Stage speaker, sharing how events can serve as a channel to combat social injustice.
Amal Clooney LLM '01 built an unparalleled human rights law practice. NYU Law is where she found her passion for international human rights.
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.
In 2025, Clooney was appointed Professor of Practice at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government.
She partnered with the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative in beginning the Amal Clooney Scholarship, which was created to send one female student from Lebanon to the United World College Dilijan each year, to enroll in a two-year International Baccalaureate (IB) programme.
In 2017, the Clooneys awarded a $1 million grant to the Southern Poverty Law Center in Charlottesville, Virginia, to combat hate groups in America.
In 2018, following the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, the Clooneys pledged $500,000 to the March for Our Lives and said they would be in attendance.
They also donated $100,000 to the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights, through the Clooney Foundation for Justice, to help migrant children who were separated from their families at the Mexico–United States border.
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 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 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.
This included money for the NHS to help provide assistance to frontline workers and to The Lebanese Food Bank which helps single mothers, the elderly and vulnerable people who could not work due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This included money for the NHS to help provide assistance to frontline workers and to The Lebanese Food Bank which helps single mothers, the elderly and vulnerable people who could not work due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The couple also made a donation to The Mill at Sonning Theatre, located close to their Berkshire home, which helped ensure its survival through the pandemic.
In 2022, the Foundation partnered with the Obama Foundation’s Girls Opportunity Alliance and Melinda French Gates to advance gender equality and reduce levels of child marriage worldwide.
In 2022, Clooney, along with Michelle Obama and Melinda French Gates, launched the 'Get Her There' campaign that seeks to catalyse educating and empowering teenage females.
Amal Clooney, born Amal Alamuddin in Beirut, Lebanon, on February 3, 1978, is a distinguished international human rights lawyer. Her family relocated to the United Kingdom when she was two years old, settling in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, to escape the Lebanese Civil War. She pursued her higher education at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, where she earned a BA in Jurisprudence in 2000, and later an LLM degree from New York University School of Law in 2001. During her time at NYU, she interned for then-judge Sonia Sotomayor and received the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award for excellence in entertainment law. Clooney is qualified to practice law in both the United States and England and Wales, having been admitted to the New York bar in 2002 and called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2010. She is currently a practicing barrister at Doughty Street Chambers. Her legal work has spanned international courts, including the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, and she gained early experience in criminal defense at Sullivan & Cromwell representing clients such as Enron and Arthur Andersen.
Throughout her career, Amal Clooney has focused on human rights, representing journalists and victims of mass atrocities. She has taken on cases involving prominent figures like former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Her work for justice includes advocating for Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad and defending Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa against legal charges. Clooney has been a co-plaintiff’s counsel in significant cases, including the first conviction of an Islamic State member for genocide in 2021 and a civil case against French cement manufacturer Lafarge in 2023 for alleged material support to the Islamic State. She was appointed as the inaugural Deputy Chair of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom in 2019 and serves as a Special Adviser to the International Criminal Court Prosecutor. Additionally, she has been a member of the UK Attorney General’s Office Public International Law Panel and an expert panel for the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative.
In 2016, Amal Clooney co-founded the Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ) with her husband, George Clooney. This organization provides free legal aid to defend free speech and women’s rights in over 40 countries, through initiatives like TrialWatch and Waging Justice for Women. CFJ’s efforts have led to the release of journalists and legal support for thousands of women combatting abuse, economic discrimination, and child marriage. Clooney also actively engages in philanthropy, having launched the Amal Clooney Scholarship to support Lebanese female students and donating to various causes, including the Southern Poverty Law Center and March for Our Lives. She has lectured at Columbia Law School, the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, and other prestigious institutions, sharing her expertise in international criminal law.
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