Yusra Suedi is a seasoned educator with over ten years of experience teaching International Law in higher education. In addition to her academic work, she provides specialised training for companies, organisations, and other professional institutions.

Trainings

Yusra designs and delivers practical, interactive, and policy-relevant training programmes that translate complex areas of international law into clear, actionable knowledge for decision-makers.

Her trainings are tailored to the needs of each organisation and can be delivered as half-day, full-day, or multi-session programmes, in person or online.

Training Areas

Yusra offers professional training and executive education on:

  • ESG, corporate responsibility, and international climate change law

  • International dispute resolution, litigation, and arbitration

  • Ocean governance and the law of the sea

  • International environmental protection

Who the Trainings Are For

Her trainings are designed for:

  • Corporate legal and compliance teams

  • Policymakers and government officials

  • Journalists

  • International organisations and NGOs

  • Diplomats, advisors, and senior professionals

Selected Training Engagements

  • World Economic Forum – All-day professional training on Ocean Governance in International Law for staff members and participating companies

  • United Nations – Specialised training on The Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes for government officials, diplomats, and academics

To enquire about professional training opportunities or to discuss a tailored programme for your organisation, please contact:
yusra.suedi@manchester.ac.uk

University Teaching

  • Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (September 2025 - present):

    Yusra is a Visiting Professor in the LLM International Law, where she teaches the foundational course ‘Participants in International Legal Processes’.

  • University of Manchester (September 2023 - present):
    Foundations of International Law (LLM/MA); International Courts and Tribunals (LLM); Global Environmental and Climate Change Law (LLM); International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (LLM); Dissertation workshops (LLM); Law in a Global Context (LLB).

  • 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.

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