Alice
Gardoll

Alice Gardoll is the Director of Legal Strategy and Impact at the Clooney Foundation for Justice. Prior to joining CFJ, Alice served as Chief of Staff to Amal Clooney, supporting her legal advocacy globally.

Alice has spent her career defending and amplifying the voices of journalists, victims of human rights abuses, asylum seekers and incarcerated individuals. She is the Assistant Editor of Freedom of Speech in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2024), and contributed as the author of three chapters. She was a member of the international legal team representing Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and renowned journalist Maria Ressa. At the international human rights organization Reprieve, she specialized in arbitrary and unlawful detention. She has practised as a public defender representing Aboriginal Australians in the remote Northern Territory and as a refugee lawyer in Australia and Greece. She also sits on the Management Committee of RACS Australia (the Refugee Advice & Casework Service). Alice began her career as a clerk to the President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal, her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, now the 39^th Governor of New South Wales. She has also worked as a commercial litigator at Herbert Smith Freehills.

Alice holds a Bachelor of Arts / Laws (LL.B) with First Class Honors from the University of Sydney and a Master of Laws (LL.M) from Columbia Law School, where she was a Fulbright Scholar.