Dr Margot Salomon

This course is available on the LLM (extended part-time), LLM (full-time), MSc in Development Studies, MSc in Human Rights, MSc in Law and Finance and University of Pennsylvania Law School LLM Visiting Students. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course uses controlled access as part of the course selection process. For information on controlled access courses, including eligibility, application processes, deadlines, and departmental contact details, please refer to the Controlled Access Courses webpage.

How to apply: Priority will be given initially to LLM, MSc Regulation and MSc Law and Finance students on a first-come-first-served allocation.

Spaces permitting, requests from all other students will be processed on the same first-come-first-served allocation from 10am on Thursday 1 October 2026

By submitting an application, students are confirming that they meet any departmental requirements. Providing an additional written statement is not necessary.

Deadline for application: Not applicable

For queries contact: Law.llm@lse.ac.uk

This course explores international human rights law through a range of contemporary topics. These may include water, property, sexuality, and indigenous rights to land, territories and resources. This course also investigates overarching tensions that help us situate human rights in wider socio-economic and political context. Here we tend to engage with human rights and resistance, the fragmentation of international law, and current developments at international human rights institutions. Through the study of relevant concepts, norms, doctrine and debates, students are encouraged to develop an informed and critical assessment of the significance of international human rights law as a force for emancipatory change.

20 hours of seminars in the Winter Term.
2 hours of seminars in the Spring Term.

This course has a reading week in Week 6 of Winter Term.

One 2,000 word essay.

O de Schutter, International Human Rights Law: Cases, Material and Commentary (CUP); P Mecklem, ‘Human Rights in International Law: Three Generations or One’? 3 London Review of International Law 1 (2015); C Clark, 'Of What Use is a Deradicalized Human Right to Water?' 17 Human Rights Law Review 2 (2017); W Schabas, 'The Omission of the Right to Property in the International Covenants' 4 Hague Yearbook of International Law (1991); C Charters, ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Rights to Lands, Territories, and Resources in UNDRIP’ in J Hohmann and M Weller (eds) The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Commentary (2018).

Exam (100%), duration: 150 Minutes in the Spring exam period.