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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.

Keynote lecture at Amnesy International Retreat (21 March 2023)

(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) -  Legal Advisor to the Speaker of the Greek Parliament (2015)
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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, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ (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).

LL4C2 World Poverty and Human Rights

LL403E International Human Rights: Concepts, Law and Practice

LL4AX Selected Topics in International Human Rights Law

LL280 Advanced Issues in Public International Law

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.

Review:

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

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

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

Reviews:

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.

• 1 Transnational Legal Theory (2024) 1–33 (open access)
•  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,  (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),  (Oxford University Press, 2020)
•  ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law Working Paper Series 20/2018 (with Robert Howse)
• ‘Odious Debt, Adverse Creditors, and the Democratic Ideal’ in I. Bantekas and C. Luminas (eds), (Oxford University Press, 2018) (with R. Howse) 
•  21 European Law Journal 4 (2015); also available as 
• 'You Say You Want a Revolution: Challenges of Market Primacy for the Human Rights Project’ in W. Vandenhole (ed), (Routledge, 2015).
• '' in A. Nollkaemper and D. Jacobs (eds.), Distribution of Responsibilities in International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Available as
• '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)
• '' 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), (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
• Human Rights Quarterly 34 (2012) 1084–1169
• , 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.)  (2nd edn Intersentia, 2010)
• ‘Social Justice and Human Rights’ in A. Walker, D. Gordon et al (eds), (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)
• 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), (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.), (Harvard University Press, 2006)
• ,  23 Netherlands Quarterly of HumanRights 3 (2005)
• , Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law, 1 (2003)   

•  Interview with de Volkskrant (23 March 2024)
• Opinio Juris 'Fresh Squeezed'  (28 November 2023)
• Third World Approaches to International Law Review 7 July 2022
• ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Thinks 11 June 2020
• '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)
• EJIL Talk! 24.08.15
• Zeit Online Interview, 20.07.15
• Margot E. Salomon and Olivier De Schutter,  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).
• Open Democracy – Open Global Rights (July 2013)
• EJIL:Talk!  16 November 2012
• , 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)
• 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 Majalla, 5 August 2010
• , Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs 25 March 2010
• , Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, 4 May 2009 (with Sakiko Fukuda-Parr)
• 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)