Hey there – thanks for visiting my website! My name is Levin Güver and I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich, where I am composing my habilitation on the philosophical foundations of criminal procedure law. I hold a PhD from University College London, where I was jointly supervised across the Law Faculty and Philosophy Department by Mark Dsouza and John Hyman, as well as a Bachelor of Law and Master of Law from the University of Zurich, the latter of which I graduated as valedictorian. I am also an active member of the IDea Lab (formerly known as the Guilty Minds Lab), and have spent some time at both the Max Planck Institute for Crime, Security, and Law and Yale Law School.

My interests lie at the intersection of law, philosophy, and psychology, broadly construed. I am most passionate about the philosophical foundations of criminal law and am currently writing my habilitation on the aims of the criminal process, and the moral and epistemological puzzles that beset it. I am also greatly interested in action-theoretical queries – my dissertation was on intention in and outside the law – and hold auxilliary interests in the philosophy of blame and punishment and (the ethics of) artificial intelligence. I further enjoy tackling jurisprudential questions from an empirical angle (see here here for a wonderful review article of what that looks like) and have done some work on biases afflicting causal cognition and, by extension, the law.

In my free time I enjoy lifting weights, running, playing chess, video games, and reading manga.

If you share any of the above interests, please do get in touch!