Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin)
Amal Clooney is an international human rights lawyer known for representing victims of mass atrocities, journalists prosecuted for their reporting, survivors of genocide and sexual violence, political prisoners, and marginalised communities. Through strategic litigation before international, national, and regional courts, as well as through the Clooney Foundation for Justice and the Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice, her work is dedicated to expanding access to justice.
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The Harms of Speech
The United States Supreme Court seems poised to strike down state restrictions that prohibit medical professionals from engaging in so-called “conversion therapy,” or efforts to make a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) person heterosexual or cisgender. Although the Supreme Court has declined to hear similar challenges in the past, the arc of its First Amendment jurisprudence and its skepticism of constitutional claims involving sexual and reproductive rights suggest that the restriction at issue is likely to be invalidated.
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