The international human rights lawyer and former adviser to the former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan will serve as a visiting lecturer and 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 said in a statement. “I look forward to getting to know the next generation of human rights advocates studying here.”
Amal Clooney joins team representing Northern Ireland's 'hooded men'
Clooney is based in London, where she lives with her husband, the actor George Clooney. He will be filming a movie, Money Monster, in New York in the spring.
Last month, Amal Clooney joined a legal team working to censure the UK over the treatment of 11 prisoners, known as the “hooded men”, who say they were tortured by the British army in Northern Ireland.
She has also represented the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister of Ukraine.
The co-director of Columbia’s Human Rights Institute, Professor Sarah Cleveland, said Clooney’s “extensive experience” would enrich Columbia’s students.
Ms Clooney, 37, lives in London with her husband. However, it is expected that both Clooneys will make the move to New York when Columbia's spring term starts, as George has a new film, Money Monster, filming in New York over the spring.
The Oxford graduate's impressive resume has been the source of many jokes since she married Hollywood heart throb George in a Venice ceremony last year.
At the Golden Globes in January, hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler drew attention to the lawyeras she sat in the audience with her husband, who was there to receive a lifetime achievement award.
"George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin this year," Fey said.
"Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an adviser to Kofi Annan regarding Syria, and was selected for a three-person commission investigating rules of war violations in the Gaza Strip. So tonight, her husband is getting a lifetime achievement award."
Her husband made a similar quip at the SeriousFun Children's Network Gala in New York last week after accidentally saying that the charity had helped children in over 500 countries.
As he realised there weren't even 500 countries on the planet, George laughed saying, "My wife's the smart one".
The funny side of her new-found celebrity status isn't lost on Ms Clooney herself.
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