Hot News: International Lawyer And Scholar Amal Alamuddin Engaged To George Clooney

Amar Alamuddin, an accomplished international lawyer who has represented Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and has worked on matters related to drones and Syria, is reportedly engaged to George Clooney, an actor.

Amal Alamuddin, a lawyer whose work includes issues related to Syria, drones and Wikileaks, is engaged to George Clooney, an actor. People Magazine broke the story noting that Alamuddin and Clooney were spotted at Nobu in Malibu, where they were dining with Cindy Crawford and her husband Rande Gerber (both friends of Clooney's). Alamuddin was seen at the dinner wearing what looked like an engagement ring on her left ring finger. One of People Magazine's exclusive sources said, 'Clooney popped the question' and 'George and Amal are trying to keep things very low-key but they also aren't really trying to hide this, it doesn't seem. I think it's like they want the people they love to know that this is real, that they plan on being together forever.'

Alamuddin, is an accomplished international lawyer. She holds a B.A. and L.L.B. from St. Hugh's College, Oxford University (where she won the Shrigley Award) and also holds a Masters of Law (L.L.M.) degree from New York University School of Law (where she earned the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award for excellence in entertainment law). She practiced for several years at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's New

York office, where she was a member of the Criminal Defense and Investigations Group. There her clients included Enron and Arthur Andersen. In her current position as a barrister in London (Bar of England & Wales, Inner Temple) Alamuddin has represented clients in cases before the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights, as well as in domestic courts in the U.K. and the U.S.. Alamuddin has also represented controversial Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in extradition proceedings in the U.K. and former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuila Tymonshenko before the European Court of Human Rights. Amal previously served as legal adviser to the Prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and as legal adviser to the head of UNIIIC in Beirut.

In addition to individual clients Alamuddin has provided advice to governments on matters related to international law and is an appointed member of a variety of United Nations commissions, including serving as Counsel to the Inquiry into the use of drones in counterterrorism operations, led by U.N. Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, Ben Emmerson QC, into the use of drones. She is an appointed adviser to adviser to Kofi Annan, the Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League on Syria, the legal adviser to the head of the U.N. commission investigating the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri and other terrorist attacks in Lebanon.

Alamuddin is also a scholar, she co-edited the book The Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Law and Practice. The book examines the law and procedure of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the first international court created in response to a terrorist act, the tribunal was established to try those responsible for the 2005 assassination of Rafic Hariri. She also co-authored an article in the prestigious Journal of International Criminal Justice in which she and her co-author examined the expansion of the International Criminal Court's jurisdiction over the use of prohibited weapons in international armed conflicts (expanding jurisdiction to their use in internal armed conflicts). In their words, 'The amendment sends a signal that individuals should be held accountable for using certain prohibited weapons regardless of the scope of the armed conflict.' In a chapter she wrote for the book Contemporary Challenges for the International Criminal Court she examined the role of the U.N. Security Council in starting and stopping cases at the International Criminal Court, that book featured a bevy of prominent international criminal law scholars including M. Cherif Bassiouni, Mark Ellis, and William Schabas.

In addition to her writing, Alamuddin has served as a guest lecturer on international criminal law at SOAS (University of London), The New School in New York, The Hague Academy of International Law, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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