Margot Salomon
Email:
m.e.salomon@lse.ac.uk
Administrative support:
Lewina Coote
Room: TW2.11.01F (Tower 2)
Tel.
020-7955-6922
Margot Salomon is a Senior Lecturer in the Law Department
and the
Centre for the Study of Human Rights.
Her research focuses on global economic justice, in particular the legal
dimensions of world poverty and duties to distant strangers; development and
international law, and; human rights and economic orthodoxy. Her work
explores the contribution and limits of international (human rights) law,
concepts and mechanisms under conditions of globalisation, and engages with
the normative paradigms of other disciplines operating in the realm of
economic justice.
Dr Salomon is Guest Editor of the Global Policy Journal Special
Section on International Law, Human Rights and the Global Economy:
Innovations and Expectations for the 21st Century (2012); she is one of the
authors of the legal 'Commentary to the Maastricht Principles on
Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the area of Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights' (Human Rights Quarterly, 2012), and; lead author of
the World Bank study on 'Human Rights and Economics: Tensions, Synergies and
Ways Forward' (2012). Dr Salomon was a consultant to the Office of the UN
High Commissioner for Human Rights on extreme poverty and human rights
(2009), Advisor to the UN High-level Task Force on the Right to Development
(2004-9), and a Member of the International Law Association's Committee on
the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2008-2012). She currently sits on the
Executive Board of the Association of Human Rights Institutes. In 2012 Dr
Salomon was a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University
Institute.
At the LSE Dr Salomon sits on the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study
of Human Rights; 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. She is a Member of the Scholars at Risk Steering
Committee and in November 2012 she will take up a position on the School's
Ethics Policy Committee. Prior to joining the LSE in 2004, Dr Salomon was
representative to the United Nations and to the African Commission on Human
and Peoples' Rights of Minority Rights Group International.
Dr Salomon supervises PhD candidates in the areas such as socio-economic
rights, development and international law, and environmental rights,
including as part of cross-disciplinary supervisory teams. Dr Salomon
convenes the LLM course World Poverty and Human Rights, the LLM course
International Human Rights, and co-convenes the MSc Human Rights course
Approaches to Human Rights. She holds a PhD in International Law from the
LSE, 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.
Research interests
Research interests: legal dimensions of world poverty and the nature and scope of international cooperation; the contribution and limits of international human rights law and concepts to issues of global economic justice; human rights and the global economy; human rights and economic development.
Other expertise: the rights of indigenous peoples; socio-economic rights; climate change; the role and responsibilities of international organisations (United Nations, World Bank etc).
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Guest Editor, Global Policy Journal. Special Section on International Law, Human Rights, and the Global Economy: Innovations and Expectations for the 21st Century (2012).
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Lead author, World Bank Study on the Integration of Human Rights in Development Policies and Programs and its Economic Impact and Implications (Part 1: Human Rights and Economics: Tensions, Synergies and Ways Forward) (2012).
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Executive Board, Association of Human Rights Institutes, University of Oslo (2009-present).
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Advisory Board, Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values, University of Antwerp (2009-present).
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Expert Consultant, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights:
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Background Paper on the views of States and other Stakeholders/Conference Rapporteur/Final Report (Technical Review), Draft Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, (2009). (P5) [click here for full text]
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UN Social Forum, Human Rights and the Global Economy (2009).
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UN High-Level Task Force on the Right to Development (2004-2009).
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Editorial Board, European Yearbook of Human Rights (2009-present).
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Associate, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, LSE (2008-present).
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Senior Consultant, Ford Foundation, Darfur Initiative Evaluation (2008).
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Association of Human Rights Institutes:
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Member, Working Group on the UN Human Rights Monitoring Machinery. Research Project on the Role of the EU in UN Human Rights Reform (2008-2012).
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Member, Working Group on Human Rights and Development. Research Project on Human Rights, Peace and Security in EU Foreign Policy (2005-2008).
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Member, Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, International Law Association (2008-2012).
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Visiting Lecturer, UN University, Tokyo (2005-2006).
