Yussef Al Tamimi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Legal Studies. His academic interests include law and emotions, identity, belonging, attachment, and dignity. Yussef holds a Ph.D. in Law from the European University Institute and an LL.M. from Yale Law School as a Fulbright scholar. His doctoral dissertation examined the intersection of identity and emotions in human rights law. In 2022, his research was awarded the Antonio Cassese Prize for the Best Dissertation in International Law. Yussef has published peer-reviewed articles in Social & Legal Studies, Social Identities, and Philosophy and Public Issues and was editor at the European Journal of Legal Studies and the Yale Journal of International Law. Before joining CEU, Yussef clerked for Judge Pavli at the European Court of Human Rights.