Yusra 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
World Economic Forum: ‘Ocean Governance in International Law’ all-day training to staff members and companies
United Nations: ‘The Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes’ to government officials, diplomats and academics from across the region.
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.
