Yusra Suedi is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Law at the University of Manchester, where she serves as Director of the LLM programmes in International Law. She is also Visiting Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Before joining the University of Manchester, she worked at the London School of Economics (LSE). She holds a PhD in Public International Law from the University of Geneva.

Yusra is a generalist teaching and researching in multiple areas of international law. She is is the author of The Individual in the Law and Practice of the International Court of Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2025). Her work has been published in journals such as The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals and the Leiden Journal of International Law.

Yusra actively practices international law. She has worked for the United Nations Office in Geneva, the International Law Commission, the Institut Du Droit International, the International Labour Organization Administrative Tribunal and the International Court of Justice. She has acted in cases on Palestine and climate change before the International Court of Justice, and has been involved in proceedings before the International Criminal Court, the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights and in investor-state arbitration before the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

Yusra is the founder of SAIL (the Simplified Approach to International Law), a blog that breaks down the international law behind world events in plain language. She speaks fluent English and French, and has working proficiency in Arabic and Swahili.