Environmental Crimes Listed in the Polish Penal Code Since 1997

A Comparative Study of the Crimes Leading to the Death Penalty in the Quran, Zoroastrian Legal Sources, and the Penal Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran

This paper aims to examine the death penalty in Zoroastrianism, the Quran, and the laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran. By studying antient Zoroastrian texts, we face a variety of crimes and punishments such as murder, robbery, adultery, magic, rape, and assault that were always considered to be the worst offenses. Zoroastrian religious scholars wrote books on crimes and their punishment in th...

Pathological Intoxication and the Model Penal Code

Comparative Study of Changes in the Islamic Penal Code Regarding the Responsibility of the Physician

One of the important issues in today's law is the responsibility of the physician, which has undergone some changes in the Islamic Penal Code. The global spread of medical events and consequently the growing number of injuries to patients, more than anything else, reveal the need for a comparative study on the physician's guaranty. While there is a controversy in the jurisprudence regarding the...

Revising the Model Penal Code: Keeping It Real

In deciding whether to reform or revise a document or institution, one must first address what the subject of the reform effort is. Before deciding whether the institution is serving its purposes well or badly, in other words, we must ask ourselves what purposes it is supposed to serve. The MPC is and does a number of things, though I suspect its predominantly academic audience of today is cons...

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