Amal Clooney made fellow of WS Society

Amal Clooney
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Ms Clooney, a member of Doughty Street Chambers, expressed her thanks to the trustees “for considering me for this honour alongside distinguished colleagues who I consider mentors and friends”.

Ranked in the legal directories as a leading barrister in international human rights law, public international law, and international criminal law, she is described as “a brilliant legal mind” who “handles cases of real international importance” and has a “passionate commitment to the law and compassion for people it serves”.

Ms Clooney is qualified in the US as well as England and Wales. She was born in Beirut but her family fled Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War when she was four years old.

She studied law at Oxford before obtaining an LLM from New York University School of Law. She was admitted to the New York bar in 2002 and worked in private practice before completing a judicial clerkship at the International Court of Justice in 2004. She was called to the English bar in 2010.