margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026twailr.com/a-new-politi...twailr.comA New Political Economy of Human RightsMargot E Salomon reflects, through a human rights lens, on the possibilities of systemic economic reconfiguration across the spheres of land, food, and natural resources. 010
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 04/05/2026‘What if legality were anchored in lived experience, rather than state performance?’ MSK on bottom-up authorities as law-shapers. And that ‘exposes the limits of state-centred accounts of legality’ as much as, I’d add, the limits of legitimate state power today. www.ejiltalk.org/on-violence-...ejiltalk.orgOn Violence: Self-Defence to Self-Determination in International LawThere are moments when the international legal order reveals itself not through its rules but through the violence done in its name. Today’s expanding doctrine of self-defence—invoked with increasing ... 000
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I’m on the Editorial Board of the fantastic and fresh @lsepress.bsky.social a fully open access innovative publishing house. Do join us at LSE on 9 June for Don Herzog’s ‘Reading Wars’ with a great line up. lselaw.events/event/readin... @lselaw.bsky.sociallselaw.eventsReading wars: the story (so far) of Western literacy and the future of free speech - LSE Law School EventsWho gets access to books? And, to what extent does the act of reading shape our humanity? In conversation with Larry Kramer, Don Herzog will discuss his new publication from LSE Press, Reading Wars, w... 053
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Radical Rights. Come join me in Lund. www.law.lu.se/calendar/mar... @lselaw.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.sociallaw.lu.seMargot Salomon, London School of Economics and Political Science: Radical RightsLund University. Title of the lecture: Radical Rights 020
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Really proud of Dr Shingi Masanzu who has just been awarded the LSE 2025 FLIA PhD Dissertation Prize ‘recognising outstanding doctoral research that advances critical perspectives on Africa and global development’. Shingi was a joy to supervise and this is so well-deserved. @lselaw.bsky.social 000
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 09/12/2025I studied the Palestine Question. This is what I wrote. law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/asset...law.unimelb.edu.au 030
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 20/11/2025David Kennedy will be around the eve of 5 December. Come join us for a chat: lselaw.events/event/profes...lselaw.eventsProfessor David Kennedy: In Conversation with Professor Susan Marks - LSE Law School EventsSpeakers: Professor David Kennedy and Professor Susan Marks 000
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 07/08/202550% off their anarchism collection now. If you are outraged at the exercise of authority, sick of entrenched hierarchy, and looking for solidarity and modes of living beyond the state-market there is something for you. www.plutobooks.com/anarchist-bo...plutobooks.comAnarchist Bookshelf - Pluto Press 020
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Powerful and lucid statement from Edward Said professor emeritus at Columbia www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comI spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid KhalidiThe university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible 010
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 29/07/2025A powerful, practical, and even hopeful letter. ‘As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities’ | Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch and Michael Rothberg www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 000
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 23/07/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWant to import toxic chemicals into Britain with scant scrutiny? Labour says: go right ahead | George MonbiotJacob Rees-Mogg’s Tory fantasy of a post-Brexit bonfire of regulations is coming true. Our bodies and ecosystems will pay the price, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 020
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Fantastic:Human Rights for Kids is out including privacy by Lavapuro (ECtHR),climate by (Wewerinke) & power of pacifism (yours truly) Buy it for the little revolutionaries in your life.We’ll need them.Proceeds to unicef @lselaw.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...blackwells.co.ukHuman Rights for KidsHuman Rights for Kids 042
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 30/06/2025‘.. positive tipping points: If the EU & China coordinate, it’s enough to shift the balance to clean green alternatives. Despite Trump ..you don’t need everybody, ..only need a fifth to tip to the new alternative .. then everybody else is compelled to follow’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Positive cascades could help accelerate change’: social tipping points expert on fixing climate crisisThe world has been too optimistic about the risk to humanity and planet – but devastation can still be avoided, says Timothy Lenton 000
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 20/06/2025AI sceptic Emily Bender: ‘The emperor has no clothes’ I suggest this is widely read. At least to get another take. And of note too that her co-authors, senior members of the ethical AI team at Google, lost their jobs at the company shortly after their publication. 000
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Scary, slightly hopeful that there will be effective pushback against this manifestation of governance by greed and narcissism. AI race, like climate change & war, is the end of life & beauty as we know it, so some can get richer. ‘Godfather’ of AI Yoshua Bengio says latest models lie to users’ FT 010
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 03/06/2025We still have choice, now is the moment to exercise it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.com‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at homeIs artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it 000
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 16/05/2025A moving and substantively rich set of conversations to mark the many contributions of Martin Scheinin. His former Phd students have also turned out in force at this wonderful Symposium on the Future of Human Rights Law. ❤️ apps.eui.eu/EUI_API/EVEN...apps.eui.eu 021
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 04/05/2025www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m... Read this piece: ‘The technical field of “AI alignment” – concerned with making sure machines share our goals – needs to broaden its scope to include governments, institutions and society itself.’theguardian.comBetter at everything: how AI could make human beings irrelevantThe end of civilisation might look less like a war, and more like a love story. Can we avoid being willing participants in our own downfall? 030
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 21/04/2025FT today lists major corporate and wealthy donors in ‘Donald Trump’s inaugural committee raised record-breaking $240mn’. Includes 250k from Treasury Secretary Bessent. 000
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Francoise was a powerhouse, fearless, smart. I remember those years at the UN, how she gave young women, like me, courage to say it like it is without apology. Such a loss to the good fight. Thank you for all you stood for, Francoise. My condolences to all in her wide circle. #francoisehampson 000
Reposted by @margotsalomon.bsky.socialNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.comThe rise of end times fascismThe governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them 21762262656
Reposted by @margotsalomon.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Trump and Noem’s threats to eliminate FEMA — a shared, if imperfect, resource for people and communities in crisis — is a very direct manifestation of end times fascism. 221356
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 21/03/2025US Jewish academics: Not in our Name docs.google.com/document/d/e...docs.google.comNot In Our Name 000
margotsalomon.bsky.social @margotsalomon.bsky.social · 07/03/2025First Bluesky post, must bring attention to the public lecture by Kristin Ross Wed 12 March. Good moment to recall: there is critical mass dedicated to solidarity and postcapitalist praxis. The series is brilliantly curated by the tireless @aycacu.bsky.social register www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/ev...lse.ac.ukThe ecological face of the commune formAt this free LSE event Professor Kristin Ross will discuss her new book The Ecological Face of the Commune Form. 121