Yusra is a seasoned educator with over ten years of experience teaching Public International Law in higher education.

United Nations Regional Course in International Law for Latin America and the Caribbean (April 2025): Yusra taught ‘The Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes’ in Santiago, Chile to government officials, diplomats and academics from across the region.

University of Manchester (September 2023 - present):
Foundations of International Law (LLM/MA); International Courts and Tribunals (LLM/MA); Global Environmental and Climate Change Law (LLM/MA); International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (LLM/MA); Research skills workshops (LLM/MA); Law in a Global Context (LLB). Yusra is also the Director of the LLM/MA Programmes in International Law.

London School of Economics and Political Science (September 2021 - August 2023): Yusra taught on the Public International Law undergraduate course. It covered a breadth of areas of Public International Law from foundations (treaties, sources, state responsibility, etc.) to specialised areas (use of force, law of the sea, refugee law, international economic law, criminal law, human rights, environmental law, investor-state arbitration, etc.), including theories (feminist, postcolonial).
Yusra won the LSE Law Teaching Prize awarded in June 2022.

University of Geneva (February 2015 - January 2021):
Yusra designed and taught Model United Nations Seminar, an interdisciplinary undergraduate course on international law-making through multilateral negotiation. She taught this in English and French. Topics of debate included climate change, climate migration / the status and protection of environmental migrants, the definition of international terrorism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the global migration crisis and the human rights situation in Syria.

Yusra has also guest lectured at Université des médias et des droits humains, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, University of Westminster and other universities.