please note:
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Margot Salomon
Email:
m.e.salomon@lse.ac.uk
Administrative support:
Lewina Coote
Room: V503 (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 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.
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).
External activities
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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)
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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 (2007-present).
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Member, Steering Committee,
Scholars at Risk, LSE (2006-present).
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Visiting Lecturer, UN University, Tokyo (2005-2006).
Global Responsibility for Human Rights : World Poverty and the
Development of International Law (Oxford
University Press, 2007)
‘Margot E. Salomon, Arne Tostensen and Wouter Vandenhole (eds),
Casting the Net Wider: Human Rights, Development and New
Duty-Bearers (Intersentia, 2007).
This
edited volume brings together scholars and practitioners to
address the question as to whether, in our globalised world,
the protection of economic, social and cultural rights in
the South has or should become the duty of actors beyond the
state. It explores the role of actors such as transnational
business, international financial institutions,
supranational organisations and influential states that are
involved in or impact on human rights in developing
countries. In adopting a ‘responsibilities approach’, it
seeks to clarify the nature, content and scope of their
contemporary duties.
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flyer
'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) 37 (5) pp.2137-2155
'International Human Rights
Obligations in Context: Structural Obstacles and the
Demands of Global Justice' in Bard A. Andreassen,
Stephen P. Marks (eds.) Development as a Human
Right: Legal, Political and Economic Dimensions
(2nd edn Intersentia, 2010)
‘Social Justice and Human Rights’ in
A. Walker, D. Gordon et al (eds), The Peter Townsend
Reader (The Policy Press, 2010).
'Poverty, Privilege and International Law: The Millennium
Development Goals and the Guise of Humanitarianism', German Yearbook of
International Law 51 (2008).
‘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 B-A. Andreassen and S.P. Marks (eds.), Development
as a Human Right: Legal, Political and Economic
Dimensions (Harvard University Press, 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).
'Masking Inequality in the Name of Rights: The
Examination of Fiji's State Report under the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Racial Discrimination', Asia-Pacific Journal on
Human Rights and the Law, 1(2003)
Reports / Essays
'The Ethics of Foreign Investment: Agricultural Land in
Africa,' published in The Majalla, 5 August 2010
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Global Economic Policy and Human Rights: Three Sites of
Disconnection, published on Carnegie Council website, 2010
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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
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'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).
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Technical Review: Draft Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (2009).
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‘The
Significance of the Task Force on the Right to
Development’, Special Report, Human Rights and
Development, Guest Editors: R. Danino and J.K. Ingram,
8 Development Outreach, The World Bank, 2
(May 2006).
The Right to
Development: Obligations of States and the Rights of
Minorities and Indigenous Peoples,
with A.
Sengupta, (MRG, 2003).
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