Alexander Brown is Associate Professor (Reader) in Political and Legal Theory. He received his PhD from the Department of Philosophy, University College London (UCL) (2005). He was a lecturer in political theory in the Department of Political Science at UCL (2005-9) before coming to UEA in September 2009. In 2018 he held a visiting post at the University of Queensland. He Tweets (@iAlexanderBrown) and blogs for The Conversation, The Huffington Post UK, and Eastminster He has been a witness on The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, in 2021 and 2023. His Google Scholar citations record can be found here. He is the author of a major study on behalf of the Council of Europe looking at Models of Governance of Online Hate speech, published May 2020. He is also the author of seven research monographs.