Teaching

Yusra has a decade of experience teaching Public International Law in higher education.

  • University of Manchester (September 2023 - present)

Global Law-Making (LLM/MA); International Courts and Human Rights (LLM/MA); Research skills workshops (LLM/MA); Law in a Global Context (LLB)

  • London School of Economics and Political Science, ‘Public International Law’ (September 2021 - August 2023)

LSE Law Teaching Prize awarded in June 2022.
All 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).

  • University of Geneva, ‘United Nations Seminar’ (February 2015 - January 2021)

International law-making through multilateral negotiation; taught in English and French; developing skills in research, drafting and speech delivery. Topics of debate: 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.

  • Université des médias et des droits humains: ‘Introduction et histoire des droits humains’ (September 2019 - present)

  • Moscow State Institute of International Relations: ‘International Environmental Law’, ‘Introduction to International Economic Law’, ‘Mass Media and International Law’, ‘International Conferences’ (March - December 2021)

Mentorship

  • Blog post: ‘Beyond the “Dr” Title— How Pursuing a Ph.D. Taught me More Than International Law’, Institute for African Women in Law, 4 March 2021

  • Blog post: ‘Studying in an International Environment: The Munich Advanced Course in International Law’, Völkerrechtsblog, 16 March 2016

  • Speaker: ‘Careers in international organisations and international courts and tribunals’, University of Sheffield Conference on Careers in International Law, European Law, and Global Justice, 21 April 2021

  • Speaker: ‘A Young Professional’s Guide to a Career in Public International Law’, Jus Cogens - The International Law Podcast, 19 May 2020

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