Dr Margot E Salomon

• Senior Lecturer

Margot Salomon is a Senior Lecturer in the Law Department and the Centre for the Study of Human Rights. Her main area of teaching is international human rights law and its interface with poverty, development, and economic globalisation. She coordinates a cross-departmental research group on Globalisation, Poverty and Responsibility| and is an Associate of the LSE's Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy| where she is working on an ESRC funded project on human rights and climate change provisionally entitled 'International Law as if Climate Change Mattered'. Dr Salomon's central research focusses on world poverty, human rights and the international political economy, and 3rd generation rights.

Dr Salomon has been a consultant to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on extreme poverty and human rights and on the right to development, and is a Member of the International Law Association's Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She sits on a number of editorial and advisory boards, including the Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values, University of Antwerp and the Executive Board of the Association of Human Rights Institutes, University of Oslo. Prior to joining the LSE in 2004 she was the Legal Officer at Minority Rights Group International where she represented MRG to the United Nations and to the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights.

Dr Salomon holds a PhD in International Law from the London School of Economics, an LLM in International Human Rights Law from University College London and an MA in Comparative European Social Studies from the University of Amsterdam. Her BA was received from Concordia University in Montreal.

Dr Salomon convenes the LLM course World Poverty and Human Rights and co-convenes the LLM course International Human Rights and the MSc Human Rights course Approaches to Human Rights. She is a member of the Centre's Advisory Board and the LSE's Scholars at Risk Steering Committee.

For more information on her teaching and external activities see Dr Salomon's page on the Law Department website|

Selected publications:

• 'Why Should it Matter That Others Have More?' Poverty, Inequality and the Potential of International Human Rights Law', Proceedings of the Oxford University Conference on International Law and Global Justice, Review of International Studies, 2011
   
• Margot E. Salomon, 'The Ethics of Foreign Investment: Agricultural land in Africa', The Majalla, 4 August 2010
   
• Margot E. Salomon, 'Global Economic Policy and Human Rights: Three Sites of Disconnection', Carnegie Council, 25 March, 2010
   
• Margot E. Salomon, 'International Human Rights Obligations in Context: Structural Obstacles and the Demands of Global Justice' in Bård A. Andreassen and Stephen P. Marks (eds.) Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political and Economic Dimensions, (2nd ed.) (Intersentia, 2010) 

• Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Margot E. Salomon, 'A Human Rights Analysis of the G20 Communiqué: Recent Awareness of the "Human Cost" Is Not Quite Enough', Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, 4 May 2009
   
• 'Poverty, Privilege and International Law: The Millennium Development Goals and the Guise of Humanitarianism', German Yearbook of International Law 51 (2008)
   
• M.E. Salomon, 'Legal Cosmopolitanism and the Normative Contribution of the Right to Development' in S.P. Marks (ed), Implementing the Right to Development: The Role of International Law (Harvard School of Public Health/Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2008)

• Global Responsibility for Human Rights: World Poverty and the Development of International Law (Oxford University Press, 2007)
   
• 'International Economic Governance and Human Rights Accountability' in Margot E. Salomon, Arne Tostensen and Wouter Vandenhole (eds), Casting the Net Wider: Human Rights, Development and New Duty-Bearers (Intersentia, 2007)
   
• 'Socio-Economic Rights as Minority Rights' in Marc Weller (ed), Universal Minority Rights: A Commentary on the Jurisprudence of International Courts and Treaty Bodies (Oxford University Press, 2007)
   
• 'International Human Rights Obligations in Context: Structural Obstacles and the Demands of Global Justice, in Stephen P Marks and Bard-Anders Andreassen (eds), Development as a Human Right (Harvard University Press, 2006)
   
• 'The Significance of the Task Force on the Right to Development', Special Report, Human Rights and Development, Guest Editors: Roberto Danino and Joseph K Ingram, 8 Development Outreach, The World Bank, 2 (May 2006) 
   
• 'Towards a Just Institutional Order: A Commentary on the First Session of the UN Task Force on the Right to Development', 23 Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 3 (2005)
   

Email: m.e.salomon@lse.ac.uk|
Telephone: 020 7955 6922