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Dr Margot Salomon

Associate Professor of Law
LSE Law School

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Margot Salomon is Associate Professor at LSE Law School and directs the multidisciplinary (Laboratory for Advanced Research on the Global Economy) at LSE Human Rights. Her research explores the roles and distributional effects of international law with current projects focused on the emerging field of transformative international human rights law. Recent publications consider contradictions in the radical articulation of peasant rights (London Review of International Law); and adjudicating socio-economic rights in structural context and indigenous land rights outside of capital accumulation (Leiden Journal of International Law). Margot’s research draws inspiration from a variety of disciplines including political economy, critical development studies, and counter-hegemonic and 4th world approaches to international law. In 2019 Margot was awarded the European Society of International Law Book Prize for The Misery of International Law (with Linarelli and Sornarajah) and in 2018 she became a laureate of a Belgian European Francqui Chair. She is currently a member of the inaugural Editorial Board of LSE Press, a fully open access publishing house.

Margot has been a consultant to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on extreme poverty and human rights (2009) and the World Bank’s Nordic Trust Fund on human rights and economics (2011); Advisor to the UN High-level Task Force on the Right to Development (2004-2009); and a member of the International Law Association's Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2008-2012). She was on the Drafting Committee of the Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2009-2011) and from 2009-2017 was Vice-Chair of the Association of Human Rights Institutes. In 2015 she was invited by the Speaker of the Greek Parliament to provide legal advice on socio-economic rights and international conditionality and in 2017-18 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, working on an EU funded project entitled: 'Legal Rights and the Political Economy of Debt and Austerity in Europe'.

At LSE Margot currently sits on the Editorial Board of LSE Press and on the School’s Scholars at Risk (SAR) Working Group, having helped secure LSE’s membership in SAR in 2006. As a member of the law school's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, she contributed to efforts towards meeting the requirements of the Athena Swan Equality Charter Mark. From 2013-2016, Margot sat on LSE’s Ethics Policy Committee and from 2004-2015 she was a member of the Advisory Board at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights (now LSE Human Rights). Prior to joining LSE in 2004, she was representative to the United Nations and to the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights at Minority Rights Group International.

Margot supervises PhD candidates working, inter alia, on socio-economic rights, global development, and globalisation and law and welcomes applicants interested in critically-engaged approaches to these subjects, including applicants animated by the turn to commoning, postgrowth, and postdevelopment paradigms. She convenes the LLM courses World Poverty and Human Rights, Selected Topics in International Human Rights Law, as well as the Executive LLM course on International Human Rights. Margot holds a PhD in International Law from 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.