@margotsalomon.bsky.social
https://www.lse.ac.uk/law/people/academic-staff/margot-salomon
Latest pubs above: Critical debt (transnational legal theory); Emancipating rights (Leiden JIL); Peasant Declaration and the Revolutionary Lawyer (London Review of IL). All open access.
Latest pubs above: Critical debt (transnational legal theory); Emancipating rights (Leiden JIL); Peasant Declaration and the Revolutionary Lawyer (London Review of IL). All open access.
I studied the Palestine Question. This is what I wrote. law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/asset...
law.unimelb.edu.au
December 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I studied the Palestine Question. This is what I wrote. law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/asset...
David Kennedy will be around the eve of 5 December. Come join us for a chat: lselaw.events/event/profes...
Professor David Kennedy: In Conversation with Professor Susan Marks - LSE Law School Events
Speakers: Professor David Kennedy and Professor Susan Marks
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November 20, 2025 at 9:06 AM
David Kennedy will be around the eve of 5 December. Come join us for a chat: lselaw.events/event/profes...
This is going to be excellent
Our new issue drops soon!
@leaypi.bsky.social leads a forum on the real crisis fueling the war on immigrants, w/ @pochoaespejo.bsky.social @danieldenvir.bsky.social @daralind.bsky.social
Plus @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on civility under fascism, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social on MAGA’s complaints +
@leaypi.bsky.social leads a forum on the real crisis fueling the war on immigrants, w/ @pochoaespejo.bsky.social @danieldenvir.bsky.social @daralind.bsky.social
Plus @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on civility under fascism, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social on MAGA’s complaints +
October 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This is going to be excellent
50% 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.
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Anarchist Bookshelf - Pluto Press
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August 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
50% 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...
www.plutobooks.com/anarchist-bo...
Powerful and lucid statement from Edward Said professor emeritus at Columbia www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Powerful and lucid statement from Edward Said professor emeritus at Columbia www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A 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...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
July 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
A 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...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Fantastic: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
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Human Rights for Kids
Human Rights for Kids
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July 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Fantastic: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.uk/bookshop/pro...
‘.. 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/...
‘Positive cascades could help accelerate change’: social tipping points expert on fixing climate crisis
The world has been too optimistic about the risk to humanity and planet – but devastation can still be avoided, says Timothy Lenton
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
‘.. 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/...
AI 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.
June 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
AI 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.
Scary, 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
‘Godfather’ of AI Yoshua Bengio says latest models lie to users’ FT
June 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Scary, 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
‘Godfather’ of AI Yoshua Bengio says latest models lie to users’ FT
We still have choice, now is the moment to exercise it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home
Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
We still have choice, now is the moment to exercise it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
A 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...
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May 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
A 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...
www.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.’
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.’
Better at everything: how AI could make human beings irrelevant
The 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?
www.theguardian.com
May 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
www.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.’
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.’
FT today lists major corporate and wealthy donors in ‘Donald Trump’s inaugural committee raised record-breaking $240mn’. Includes 250k from Treasury Secretary Bessent.
April 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
FT today lists major corporate and wealthy donors in ‘Donald Trump’s inaugural committee raised record-breaking $240mn’. Includes 250k from Treasury Secretary Bessent.
Francoise 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
April 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Francoise 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
Reposted
THE 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...
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...
The rise of end times fascism
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
April 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
THE 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...
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...
Reposted
Trump 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.
THE 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...
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...
The rise of end times fascism
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
April 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Trump 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.
US Jewish academics: Not in our Name
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Not In Our Name
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March 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
US Jewish academics: Not in our Name
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First 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...
www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/ev...
The ecological face of the commune form
At this free LSE event Professor Kristin Ross will discuss her new book The Ecological Face of the Commune Form.
www.lse.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
First 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...
www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/ev...