About
Margot Salomon is Associate Professor of International Law at LSE Law School and until 2016 held a Joint Appointment at the Law School and LSE’s Centre for the Study of Human Rights. Margot’s research explores the distributional effects of international law drawing inspiration from a variety of disciplines including political economy, critical development studies, and counter-hegemonic and 4th world approaches to international law. Recent publications study contradictions in the radical articulation of peasant rights (London Review of International Law); adjudicating socio-economic rights in structural context and indigenous land rights outside of capital accumulation (Leiden Journal of International Law); a Federici-inspired examination of sovereign debt (Transnational Legal Theory); and a material renarration of self-determination (Melbourne Journal of International Law).
Margot was awarded a European Society of International Law Book Prize for The Misery of International Law (with Linarelli and Sornarajah) and is an International Francqui Chair laureate. She is currently a member of the inaugural Editorial Board of LSE Press, a fully open access publishing house, and continues to lead the interdisciplinary Laboratory for Advanced Research on the Global Economy at LSE Human Rights.
Margot welcomes PhD applicants working on human rights, global (sustainable) development, and globalisation and international law from post-colonial, radical, and plural epistemological perspectives. She welcomes applicants interested in critically engaged approaches to these subjects, including the turn to commoning, postgrowth, and postdevelopment paradigms. Her interests also extend to militarism, democracy and a wide range of other topics.
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.
Research
Research Interests
Thematic interests include: Poverty, inequality and international law; militarism and militarisation; international law and dispossession; 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: (international) political economy; economic sociology; global economic history; critical development studies; and various heterodox approaches to international law.