Thematic interests include: Poverty, inequality and international law; legal regimes of dispossession and the global economy; rights over natural resources and economic self-determination; commons, postgrowth, postdevelopment, and radical democracy; socio-economic and (post)development rights; the rights of indigenous peoples and peasants; land rights; environmental justice; the UN; international financial institutions; European Union; as well as geographical interests in Africa, Latin America as elsewhere.

Disciplinary inspiration: global economic history; international political economy; economic sociology; critical development studies; and various heterodox approaches to international law.

'Alternatieven voor het kapitalisme worden te gemakkelijk verworpen' Interview with de Volkskrant (23 March 2024)

Opinio Juris 'Fresh Squeezed' podcast interview (28 November 2023)

Keynote lecture at Amnesy International Retreat (21 March 2023)

Laureate of the Belgian (European) Francqui Chair (2018-19)

Work on debt, austerity and international law

-  Visiting Scholar, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (2017-18)
-  'Of Austerity, Human Rights and International Institutions' European Law Journal (2015) [working paper available]
-  Legal Advisor to the Speaker of the Greek Parliament (2015)
-  'La Troika e i Diritti Umani' La Repubblica, 4.05.2015
-  Legal Brief with O. De Schutter, 15.06.2015
-  'Die Austeritätspolitik verletzt Menschenrechte' Zeit Online Interview, 20.07.15
-  'Europe’s Debt to Greece' EJIL Talk! 24.08.15

Editorial Board, Edward Elgar Monograph Series on Studies in Human Rights (2014-present).

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).

Guest Editor, Global Policy Journal. Special Section on International Law, Human Rights, and the Global Economy: Innovations and Expectations for the 21st Century (2012).

Drafting Committee, Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2009-11).

Vice-Chair, Association of Human Rights Institutes (2009-17).

Advisory Board, Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values, University of Antwerp (2009-present).

Expert Consultant, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and UN:

- 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)
- UN Social Forum, Human Rights and the Global Economy (2009).
- UN High-Level Task Force on the Right to Development (2004-09).

Editorial Board, European Yearbook of Human Rights (2009-present).

Associate, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, LSE (2008-present).

Senior Consultant, Ford Foundation, Darfur Initiative Evaluation (2008).

Association of Human Rights Institutes:

-  Member, Working Group on the UN Human Rights Monitoring Machinery. Research Project on the Role of the EU in UN Human Rights Reform (2008-12)
-  Member, Working Group on Human Rights and Development. Research Project on Human Rights, Peace and Security in EU Foreign Policy (2005-08)

Member, Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, International Law Association (2008-12).

Visiting Lecturer, UN University, Tokyo (2006).

LL278 Public International Law

LL403E International Human Rights: Concepts, Law and Practice

LL4AW Foundations of International Human Rights Law

LL4AX Selected Topics in International Human Rights Law

LL4C2 World Poverty and Human Rights

The Misery of International Law: Confrontations with Injustice in the Global Economy (Oxford University Press 2018), (with J Linarelli and M Sornarajah)

Winner of the 2019 European Society of International Law Book Prize.

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Review:

Leiden Journal of International Law (2019) [online first]

Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (April-June 2019) p.632

Journal of International Economic Law (2019) [online first] 

Melbourne Journal of International Law (2018) Volume 19 pp.763-772

International Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 6, 1 November 2018, pp.1463-1464

Global Responsibility for Human Rights : World Poverty and the Development of International Law (Oxford University Press, 2007)

Challenges to the exercise of the basic socio-economic rights of half the global population give rise to some of the most pressing issues today. This timely book focuses on world poverty, providing a systematic exposition of the evolving legal responsibility of the international community of states to cooperate in addressing the structural obstacles that contribute to this injustice. This book analyzes the approach, contribution, and current limitations of the international law of human rights to the manifestations of world poverty, inviting the reader to rethink human rights, and, in particular, the framing of responsibilities that are essential to their contemporary protection

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Reviews:

The Cambridge Law Journal 2008 Vol. 67 (3) pp 656-658

European Journal of International Law 2009 20 (3) 922-923

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 2009 29 (4) 827-847

Public Law 2009 (Oct) 866-869  [LSE LOGIN]

Casting the Net Wider: Human Rights, Development and New Duty-Bearers (Intersentia, 2007) (ed. with Arne Tostensen and Wouter Vandenhole)

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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•  'The Trojan Horse of Sovereign Debt' 1 Transnational Legal Theory (2024) 1–33 (open access)
• 'Emancipating Human Rights: Capitalism and the Common Good' Leiden Journal of International Law (First View June 2023) 
• Ugo Mattei and Margot E Salomon, ‘From Poverty and Development to People’s International Law’ in Ruth Buchanan, Luis Eslava and Sundhya Pahuja (eds), The Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development (OUP 2023)
• Foreword, in Emma Luce Scali, Sovereign Debt and Socio-Economic Rights Beyond Crisis: The Neoliberalization of International Law (CUP 2022)
• 'The Radical Ideation of Peasants, the "Pseudo-Radicalism" of International Human Rights Law, and the Revolutionary Lawyer'London Review of International Law (2020) 8 (3) pp.425–456
• 'State of Play and Road Ahead: A World of Poverty and Human Rights' in D. Akande, J. Kuosmanen, D. Roser and H. McDermott (eds), Human Rights and 21st Century Challenges: Poverty, Conflict and the Environment (Oxford University Press, 2020)
• 'Odious Debt, Adverse Creditors, and the Democratic Ideal' LSE Law Working Paper Series 20/2018 (with Robert Howse)
• ‘Odious Debt, Adverse Creditors, and the Democratic Ideal’ in I. Bantekas and C. Luminas (eds), Sovereign Debt and Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2018) (with R. Howse) 
• 'Of Austerity, Human Rights and International Institutions' 21 European Law Journal 4 (2015); also available as LSE Law, Society and Economy Working Paper Series 2/2015
• 'You Say You Want a Revolution: Challenges of Market Primacy for the Human Rights Project’ in W. Vandenhole (ed), Challenging Territoriality in International Human Rights Law (Routledge, 2015).
• 'How to Keep Promises: Making Sense of the Duty Among Multiple States to Fulfil Socio-Economic Rights in the World' in A. Nollkaemper and D. Jacobs (eds.), Distribution of Responsibilities in International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Available as SHARES Research Paper 53 (2014) 
• 'Better Development Decision-making Applying International Human Rights Law to Neoclassical Economics'Nordic Journal of Human Rights (2014) 32 (1) pp.44-74 (with Colin Arnott)
• 'From NIEO to Now and the Unfinishable Story of Economic Justice' International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2013) 62, pp.31-54
• 'Deprivation, Causation and the Law of International Cooperation' in M. Langford, W. Vandenhole, M. Scheinin and W. van Genugten (eds), Global Justice, State Duties: The Extra-Territorial Scope of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
• 'Commentary to the Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights'Human Rights Quarterly 34 (2012) 1084–1169
• '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 HumanRights 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)   

• 'Culture as an Alternative to "Sustainable Development"' Third World Approaches to International Law Review 7 July 2022
• 'Reconstituting the unequal global system after pandemic – a cautionary tale of international law' LSE Thinks 11 June 2020
• 'Sustaining Neoliberal Capital Through Socio-Economic Rights' Critical Legal Thinking, 18.10.17.
• 'Economizing Justice in Times of Debt and Austerity', Proceedings of the 110th Annual Meeting, 110 American Society of International Law Proceedings (2017), (with G. Katrougalos, O. Lienau, and A Caliari)
• 'Europe's Debt to Greece' EJIL Talk! 24.08.15
• 'Die Austeritätspolitik verletzt Menschenrechte' Zeit Online Interview, 20.07.15
• Margot E. Salomon and Olivier De Schutter, Economic Policy Conditionality, Socio-Economic Rights and International Legal Responsibility: the Case of Greece 2010-2015: Legal Brief prepared for the Special Committee of the Hellenic Parliament on the Audit of the Greek Debt, 15 June 2015
• 'Austerity, Human Rights and Europe's Accountability Gap' Open Democracy – Open Global Rights (March 2014).
• 'Human Rights are also about Social Justice: A Reply to Aryeh Neier' Open Democracy – Open Global Rights (July 2013)
• 'The Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: An Overview of Positive "Obligations to Fulfil"' EJIL:Talk!  16 November 2012
• 'The Future of Human Rights', Introduction to the Special Section on International Law, Human Rights and the Global Economy: Innovations and Expectations for the 21st Century, Guest Editor M.E. Salomon, 4 Global Policy 3 (November 2012)
• 'Human Rights Norms for a Globalized World: The Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights'  Special Section on International Law, Human Rights and the Global Economy: Innovations and Expectations for the 21st Century, Guest Editor M.E. Salomon, 4 Global Policy 3 (November 2012) (with Ian Seiderman)
• 'Is there a Legal Duty to Address World Poverty?' Global Governance Programme, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Working Paper 2012/03
• 'The Ethics of Foreign Investment: Agricultural Land in Africa'  The Majalla, 5 August 2010
• Global Economic Policy and Human Rights: Three Sites of Disconnection, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs 25 March 2010
• '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 (with Sakiko Fukuda-Parr)
• '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)
• Technical Review: Draft Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (2009)
• '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)