International Law and the U.S. Common Law of Foreign Official Immunity

Western Philosophies of Law: the Common Law

The Theoretical Foundations of Jus Cogens in International Law

International Law has it's Constituent elements (legal systems, regimes and collections of rules); Those have  interrelations from which legal networks are created. Having this in mind,  the question is whether these Constituent elements only have horizental nexus or are ordered by means of factors which unified them in a vertical manner and because of that International Law is named legal orde...

necessity of international cooperation in proving the foreign law

globalization and increasing political, economic and cultural relations among different countries’ people have resulted in many legal effects. one of the important results of these relations is the increase of disputes among people in the world that forums must apply a foreign law to settle them. certainly, iranian forums have dealt with such cases. although the proof of foreign law as a questi...

Payment of part of the amount of the commercial document in Iranian law and international conventions

The general legal rule in fulfilling the obligation is to fulfill the whole subject of the obligation in due time. According to Article 277 of the civil code {the obligor can not force the obligee to accept part of the subject of the promise…}. Now the question is whether this rule also applies in payment of bill of exchange،promissory note and check or not? and are the same provisions of Iran’...

Fundamental Principles Regarding the Guarantee of the Principle of Judicial Impartiality in the International System and the Law of Iranian Law

The principles of independence and impartiality of the Judiciary is one of the most important grounds to achieve a fair trial and to ensure the rights of citizens in the proceedings, the principles which are inevitable for the existence of a judiciary whit fair and equitable judges. These principles have recognized in the vast majority of domestic legal systems as well as international legal re...