Amal Clooney
Amal Clooney is a barrister specializing in international law and human rights and a Professor of Practice in International Law at Oxford University. She is also the Co-Founder of the Clooney Foundation for Justice and a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice, a global initiative she co-founded harness the power of AI to increase access to justice.
Ms Clooney is ranked in the top tier of the legal directories Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners in international law and human rights. She is described as ‘a brilliant legal mind’ who is ‘in a league of her own at the Bar’, with a ‘commanding presence before courts’. She has devoted her working life to representing victims of human rights abuses, including victims of genocide and sexual violence and journalists imprisoned around the globe. Through her practice and her charity she has helped free over a hundred journalists and advocates and helped thousands of women across Africa defend their legal rights in court. Her work has been recognised in numerous awards including from the American Society of International Law, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the Kings Trust and Time Magazine. In 2024, she won the Legal 500 Award for international lawyer of the year. And two of her clients have gone on to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Ms Clooney’s publications include The Right to a Fair Trial in International Law (with Professor Philippa Webb), which was awarded the top prize in international law publishing by the American Society of International Law and has been cited by the UK Supreme Court. In 2024, she published Freedom of Speech in International Law with Lord David Neuberger, former President of the UK Supreme Court.
