Margot Salomon
Centre member
Margot is a Senior Lecturer in the Law Department| and the Centre for the Study of Human Rights| at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). 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 LSE's Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment|, where she co-leads the 'Governance of climate change' research programme|.
Margot 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. She sits on a number of editorial and advisory boards, and is a Member of the International Law Association's Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Executive Board of the Association of Human Rights Institutes.
Background
Prior to joining LSE in 2004, Margot 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.
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 interests
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Legal dimensions of world poverty;
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Human rights and international political economy;
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Peoples' rights (right to development; rights over natural resources); indigenous rights;
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Environmental justice; human rights and climate change.
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