Mens Rea Network

What distinguishes a criminal offence from other norm violations in the first place is sub­jec­tive imputation, because attributions of responsibility in criminal law are based on certain inner attitudes and states of the offender. However, it is notoriously unclear how we should conceptualise these. For this reason, the members of the research group collaborate with other researchers on the theorisation of the mens rea in criminal law.

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Gregory Antill

Gregory Antill is an Academic Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School. He has research interests in criminal law, evidence, and tort law, where he applies recent conceptual advances in philosophy and cognitive science to traditional legal questions about mens rea, culpability, competence, and expert testimony.

Levin Güver

Levin Güver is a PhD student at University College London, where he is cross-supervised across the Law Faculty and Philosophy Department. His work concerns the action-theoretic foundations of criminal law. More precisely, he is investigating the structure and role of intention and intention-adjacent concepts such as consent in criminal law.

Andrés Payer, LL.M.

Andrés Payer is a PhD student at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich. His dissertation deals with the evaluation of agent motive in criminal law. He is also especially interested in the mental element in crime in general and in the forms of wilfulness in particular.