Amal Clooney

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Amal Clooney (2018)

Amal Ramzi Alamuddin Clooney ( Arabic أمل علم الدين, DMG Amal ʿAlam ad-Dīn , born February 3, 1978 in Beirut , Lebanon ) is a British- Lebanese lawyer .

life and career

Amal Clooney was born in Beirut in 1978 . She has three younger siblings. In the 1980s her family left Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War and moved to London . Her mother Baria Alamuddin works as a foreign correspondent for the newspaper Al Hayat . Her father Ramzi Alamuddin returned to Lebanon in 1991. He taught economics at the American University of Beirut .

Clooney completed her studies in law at St Hugh's College in Oxford with the Bachelor of Laws , and earned a Master of Laws at the NYU School of Law in New York . After graduating, she worked for a number of years in the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. She then worked at the International Court of Justice in The Hague , in the Office of the Chief Prosecutor at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . Since 2010 she has worked as a lawyer with Doughty Street Chambers in London . She specializes in international law , human rights, and extradition and criminal law . Her clients included Julian Assange , co-founder of the Wikileaks platform , Julija Tymoshenko , former Prime Minister of Ukraine , and Nadia Murad , Yazidi " UN Ambassador for Peace for the Dignity of Victims of Human Trafficking " and a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate . Clooney also works as an advisor to governments and the United Nations .

In October 2014 it was announced that she was representing the Greek government in bringing the Elgin Marbles back to Greece. In May 2015, the Greek government announced that it did not want to argue for the return of the Elgin Marbles in a court of law. This was preceded by a legal opinion with the result that the chances of winning a lawsuit were practically hopeless.

She speaks Arabic , English and French . She has been married to actor George Clooney since September 27, 2014 . She took her husband's last name.

In June 2017, Amal Clooney had twins, a boy and a girl.

Fonts

  • Amal Alamuddin, Nidal Nabil Jurdi, David Tolbert: The Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Law and Practice . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-968745-9 .

Web links

Commons : Amal Clooney  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reed Tucker: Meet the future Mrs. Clooney. In: nypost.com. April 29, 2014, accessed May 29, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Amal Clooney. In: doughtystreet.co.uk. www.doughtystreet.co.uk, accessed May 29, 2016 .
  3. ^ A b c Gregory S. McNeal: International Lawyer And Scholar Amal Alamuddin Engaged To George Clooney. In: forbes.com. Forbes, accessed May 29, 2016 .
  4. ↑ handelszeitung.ch, October 22, 2016
  5. ↑ Amal Clooney advises the Greek government. In: dw.de. DW.COM, October 14, 2014, accessed on May 29, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung No. 112, May 16, 2015, p. 9.
  7. ↑ Dream wedding in Venice: Clooney gives Alamuddin the yes. In: Spiegel Online. SPIEGEL ONLINE, accessed on May 29, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Bridie Jabour: Amal Alamuddin changes profile name to Amal Clooney after marrying actor. In: theguardian.com. the Guardian, October 13, 2014, accessed May 29, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Quartet complete: George and Amal Clooney have had twins. In: Spiegel Online . June 7, 2017, accessed June 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Clooney, Amal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clooney, Amal Ramzi Alamuddin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Lebanese lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut , Lebanon