Professor Alejandro Nava Tovar holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus. He has been awarded the University Merit Medal granted by the UAM at both master's level (2009) and doctoral level (2014). During his postgraduate studies, he did a research stay sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Department (DAAD) at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Robert Alexy, one of the most important and recognized philosophers of law in the world.

Dr. Nava has lectured on legal argumentation, philosophy of law, political philosophy, and criminology at several universities in Mexico, Germany, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Italy, and Switzerland. He has also published several book chapters, reviews, and articles in Spanish, English, Portuguese and German for prestigious international journals and publishers in four languages (Universidad Externado de Colombia, Editorial Diego Portales, INACIPE, Marcial Pons, Forense Universitária, Revista Cubana de Derecho, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Düsseldorf University Press, Anthropos/Siglo XXI Editores, Springer and Mohr Siebeck).

In 2019, he published his first work as a translator, entitled "The Philosophy of law of Gustav Radbruch", by the renowned specialist Stanley L. Paulson, under the publishing house Marcial Pons (this work was translated in 2023 into Italian by the publisher Mimesis). In January 2015, he published his first work, entitled "La institucionalización de la razón. La filosofía del derecho de Robert Alexy", edited by UAM Iztapalapa and Editorial Anthropos/Siglo XXI. In December 2020, he published his second work, entitled "Argumentación jurídica", under the editorial seal of the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Penales (INACIPE). In August 2021, he published his third work, "Populismo punitivo", under the publishing imprint of the National Institute of Criminal Sciences (INACIPE) and Editorial ZELA, which is now in the process of translation into Italian (Castelvecchi Publishing House). In 2023, he published "Filosofía política de la pena. Una lectura filosófica sobre los fundamentos de la pena estatal" (INACIPE), and in the same year he co-edited the work Derecho, argumentación y ponderación. Ensayos en honor a Robert Alexy, published by the Universidad Externado de Colombia, and another co-edited work is about to be published on the 200th anniversary of the fundamental lines of G. W. F. Hegel's philosophy of law.

He is currently a full-time professor and researcher at the Law Department of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Azcapotzalco. Finally, Dr. Nava is a member of the National System of Researchers in Area IV: Humanities and Behavioral Sciences.