Amal Clooney joins N.Y. law school faculty, So your new husband is making a movie in New York and you've got some time on your hands: What do you do?
If you're Amal Alamuddin Clooney, the new Mrs. George Clooney and the most famous human rights lawyer in the world, you sign up to teach at a New York law school.
Columbia University announced Friday that Clooney (the lawyer, that is) will lecture on human rights law at Columbia Law School this spring as a visitor to the faculty and as a senior fellow with the Law School's Human Rights Institute.
"It is an honor to be invited as a visiting professor at Columbia Law School alongside such a distinguished faculty and talented student pool," Clooney, 37, said in a statement. "I look forward to getting to know the next generation of human rights advocates studying here."
And no doubt they will look forward to getting to know her, the beautiful, stylish and whip-smart British barrister, who was known as a top human-rights and international lawyer even before she wed George Clooney in a spectacular Venetian extravaganza in September.
The Clooneys have already been spotted here and there around New York. George Clooney is making a movie, Money Monster, with Julia Roberts co-starring and Jodie Foster directing.
Various law school officials pronounced themselves "thrilled" to get Clooney. In one stroke, Columbia, no slouch in the legal world, has raised its profile even higher with its newest visiting faculty member.She's a graduate of Oxford and New York University School of Law. She once worked for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor when she was an federal appeals-court judge. And she also once worked for a major New York law firm.
Now she's the international lawyer big clients want to get. She was a senior adviser to Kofi Annan when he was the U.N.'s envoy on Syria. She represented WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in extradition proceedings. She recently helped win release of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko from illegal detention. She served as counsel to the U.N. inquiry into the use of armed drones. And like another movie star, Angelina Jolie, she's an expert on and advocate against sexual violence in conflict zones.
She has handled 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.S. and the U.K.
In the months since the wedding, she made headlines again by representing Armenia in a genocide trial and advising Greece on its long and so far futile effort to persuade the British to return the Parthenon marbles that Lord Elgin removed from the ancient ruins and shipped to the British Museum more than 200 years ago.On the other hand, she'll be just be one famous lawyer in a city stuffed to the gills with famous, even ego-maniacal lawyers. But at least she won't have to wear those frumpy wigs and robes that British barristers have to wear.
If you're Amal Alamuddin Clooney, the new Mrs. George Clooney and the most famous human rights lawyer in the world, you sign up to teach at a New York law school.
Columbia University announced Friday that Clooney (the lawyer, that is) will lecture on human rights law at Columbia Law School this spring as a visitor to the faculty and as a senior fellow with the Law School's Human Rights Institute.
"It is an honor to be invited as a visiting professor at Columbia Law School alongside such a distinguished faculty and talented student pool," Clooney, 37, said in a statement. "I look forward to getting to know the next generation of human rights advocates studying here."
And no doubt they will look forward to getting to know her, the beautiful, stylish and whip-smart British barrister, who was known as a top human-rights and international lawyer even before she wed George Clooney in a spectacular Venetian extravaganza in September.
The Clooneys have already been spotted here and there around New York. George Clooney is making a movie, Money Monster, with Julia Roberts co-starring and Jodie Foster directing.
Various law school officials pronounced themselves "thrilled" to get Clooney. In one stroke, Columbia, no slouch in the legal world, has raised its profile even higher with its newest visiting faculty member.She's a graduate of Oxford and New York University School of Law. She once worked for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor when she was an federal appeals-court judge. And she also once worked for a major New York law firm.
Now she's the international lawyer big clients want to get. She was a senior adviser to Kofi Annan when he was the U.N.'s envoy on Syria. She represented WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in extradition proceedings. She recently helped win release of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko from illegal detention. She served as counsel to the U.N. inquiry into the use of armed drones. And like another movie star, Angelina Jolie, she's an expert on and advocate against sexual violence in conflict zones.
She has handled 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.S. and the U.K.
In the months since the wedding, she made headlines again by representing Armenia in a genocide trial and advising Greece on its long and so far futile effort to persuade the British to return the Parthenon marbles that Lord Elgin removed from the ancient ruins and shipped to the British Museum more than 200 years ago.On the other hand, she'll be just be one famous lawyer in a city stuffed to the gills with famous, even ego-maniacal lawyers. But at least she won't have to wear those frumpy wigs and robes that British barristers have to wear.
