International Law: Normative Contestation in the Transnational Realm

Examples of Patients' Rights in the Light of the Normative Hierarchy of International Law

Background and Aim: The Right to Health as an Example of Human Rights Entered the International Law Literature as a General Principle After the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. This Principle has Developed Over the Years in Terms of Instances, and From Within it Have Emerged Instances That are Closely Related to the ...

International Law and State Socialization: Conceptual, Empirical, and Normative Challenges

Debates about how best to design international legal regimes inadequately attend to the ways in which law influences state behavior. As a consequence of this deficiency, much of international law is founded upon the flawed, and often unexamined, assumption that effective legal regimes must either coerce or persuade target actors to comply with their requirements. In How to Influence States: Soc...

Basics and some examples of acceptance of transnational commercial law in Iranian law

Transnational trade usage is the most important source of international commercial law which is based on the course of conduct and practices. Despite the acceptance and application of trade usage in commercial relations, there are some ambiguities regarding its nature, identification and its binding force as a legal rule in national courts procedure. Lack of an international legislative body i...

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...

Transnational Actors, Transnational Institutions, Transnational Spaces: the Role of Law Firms in the Internationalization of Competition Regulation