Full Academic Status
College of Business, Government and Law
Anthony J. Langlois is a critical human rights theorist with a focus on sexuality and gender rights. He was educated at the University of Tasmania and the Australian National University. Langlois is the author of The Politics of Justice and Human Rights: Southeast Asia and Universalist Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Sexuality and Gender Diversity Rights in Southeast Asia (Cambrdige University Press 2022). He was Co-Editor of Global Democracy and its Difficulties (Routledge 2009) and Australian Foreign Policy: Controversies and Debates (Oxford University Press, 2014), and two special issues of the Journal of Human Rights (2014, 2021). As well as being published in many scholarly journals, he sits on the editorial board of The Journal of Human Rights and The European Journal of Politics and Gender. In 2010 he was a Senior Visiting Fellow for six months in the Centre for International Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2014 he visited at the Centre for Advanced International Theory at the University of Sussex. His areas of academic endeavour include Human Rights Theory, International Relations, Global Sexuality Politics, International Political Theory and Global Ethics.
On the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Human Rights and European Journal of Politics and Gender.
Previously on the Editorial Board of Ethics and International Affairs and Book Review Editor for Australian Journal of Political Science.
Journal Reviewing and referring experience with the following (among others):
Book Publishers: Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Palgrave MacMillan, Continuum Publishers, Polity Press, Wiley Blackwell, Taylor and Francis, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Journals: Political Studies, International Studies Review, Review of International Studies, Global Society, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, The Journal of Human Rights, Human Rights Review, Ethics and International Affairs, The Open Political Science Journal, Australian Journal of Human Rights, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Borderlands e-journal, Global Environmental Politics, Global Change, Peace and Security, Ethics and Global Politics.
PhD examination for: Australian National University, Queensland University, University of New South Wales, Curtin University, University of South Australia, Griffith University.