Amal Clooney at 48: From Civil War Refugee to Global Rights Advocate

Amal Clooney is a Lebanese-British human rights lawyer and academic. Born in Beirut in 1978, she fled the civil war as a child and grew up in Buckinghamshire, where she earned a law degree at Oxford before completing her LLM at NYU. She has represented high-profile clients such as Julian Assange, Nadia Murad and Maria Ressa. Amal teaches international law at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government and co-founded the Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice to explore AI applications for fairer legal access. In 2014 she married actor George Clooney and they are parents to twins. The couple fund scholarships in Lebanon and support global justice causes through their foundation. The Clooney Foundation for Justice runs TrialWatch for imprisoned journalists and champions women’s rights worldwide. Their initiatives include AI tools to connect underserved communities with legal support.

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