| LC control no. | no2014066071 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Clooney, Amal |
| Variant(s) | Alamuddin, Amal |
| Associated country | Great Britain United States |
| Birth date | 1978-02-03 |
| Place of birth | Beirut (Lebanon) |
| Field of activity | International law Human rights Justice, Administration of |
| Affiliation | Doughty Street Chambers International Court of Justice |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers |
| Found in | The Special Tribunal for Lebanon, 2014: title page (Amal Alamuddin) page [xxi] (Amal Alamuddin is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, London, specializing in international law and human rights) The last girl, 2017: title page (Nadia Murad; [foreword by] Amal Clooney) Amal and George Clooney, 2018: ECIP galley (Amal Clooney; name at birth: Amal Alamuddin; born in Beirut, Lebanon, on February 3, 1978; her family fled wartorn Lebanon when she was two years old and settled in London; in 1996, she enrolled in Oxford University, where she studied law at St. Hugh's College, earning a degree in Jurisprudence; she received a Master of Law degree from New York University's School of Law, earning the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award for excellence in the field of entertainment law; in 2002, she passed the New York Bar, qualifying her to practice law; she is also a member of the bar in England and Wales; she served as a law clerk to then US Court of Appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor, who is now an associate Justice of the Supreme Court; in 2004, she became a member of the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, Netherlands; married actor George Clooney in 2014; mother of twins, born in 2017; fluent in English, French and conversational Arabic) How to stand up to a dictator, 2022: ECIP title page (Amal Clooney) DNB in VIAF, July 30, 2023 (access point: Alamuddin, Amal, 1978-) |
| Associated language | eng |
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