http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2015/03/06/amal-clooney-joins-ny-law-school-faculty/24539481/ Anyone thinking Columbia Law needed any help increasing the number of applicants?? LOL
Wonder if George will sit in on a class…
I would be more worried about women who view her as an obstacle stalking her… 
She seems eminently qualified to be a visiting lecturer on the subject.
Yes she is.
Gag. Just gag. Did I miss the trip back to 1950?
I’m actually really surprised she took his name at all.
But good for her (teaching, I mean, not the name thing). Seems like a super interesting course.
Good for her!!!
Clooney is easier to say than Allamudin. I got married back in the day when it was common to hyphenate last names. My last name was a real clunker and DH’s is short and sweet. Was an easy decision.
My sister declined to hyphenate when she married because then her full name would have had the same meter as the last line of a limerick.
Her maiden name rhymed with her first name. It was also a no brained to go with her husband’s name.
@romanigypsyeyes
What does it matter whether a woman takes her husband’s name when you consider that her alternative is her father’s name? Women don’t really have a last name the way men do so it’s not something that I give two second’s thought to. (I’m a woman, btw)
neatoburrito- I have no problem with people who take their partner’s last name.
I have a problem with the use of HIS first name.
Mrs. GEORGE Clooney? Give me a break.
Oh, I didn’t see that. Yuck indeed.
As for being surprised she took his name, many women who are well-established in their careers don’t take a new name. That’s all. I wonder if she still professionally goes by her maiden name.
Either way, your maiden name is a man’s name - your father’s. It’s not like it reflects your mother. It’s still patriarchal.
It is technically incorrect to say Mrs. Amal Clooney. She’s either Ms, Amal Clooney or Mrs. George Clooney.
She recently wrote a letter to the President of Egypt on behalf of a client, an imprisoned journalist; it was signed ‘Amal Clooney’.
I don’t think too many people are familiar with the rule that says ‘Mrs. George Clooney’ is correct while ‘Mrs. Amal Clooney’ isn’t any more.
Do you think there will be much interest in her class… hee hee…?
SHE didn’t refer to herself as Mrs. George Clooney- the author of the article did.
Seriously, I wasn’t making any smash-the-patriarchy argument. I wasn’t making anything more than an observation with regards to the fact that she took his last name. Truly, I don’t follow celebrity news so this was the first time I’d seen anything with her new name.
With that said, I just think it’s pathetic that someone would write “Mrs. George Clooney” in 2015.
Really? I don’t think so.
I got married back in the day also. My last name freaks people out. (For no good reason: it is pronounced exactly as spelled.) My H’s last name is short and sweet and I even like it.
But it was an easy decision: I kept my name. 
Two syllables are much easier to pronounce than four. Maybe not in all cases, but definitely in this one.
I was MORE than happy to move my maiden name to my middle name, and take the easy to read/pronounce DHs last name. Was a no brainer for me.
To each his or her own. 