PRINCIPLES IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW

Legal and Ethical Principles of Criminalization in Iran’s Criminal Law

Background: The criminal code is the rules that restrict the rights and freedoms of a person to ensure peaceful coexistence. What behavior should be prohibited and which one can be removed from the circle of legal acts. How can the word ethics in the world of law refer to ethical and literary means from the past, and is called the tradition of morality, in the sense of moral standards? On the b...

Judicial Lawmaking and General Principles of Law in International Criminal Law

General principles of law are a primary mechanism for “gap-filling” in international criminal law. However, their interpretation by tribunals has been fitful, contradictory, and misguided. Given that general principles have been used to settle crucial legal issues that affect the rights of the accused, the confusion concerning their application threatens the legitimacy of international criminal...

International Union of Criminal Law

defenses in international criminal law

one of the most important issues in international criminal law is defenses. this issue has also significance in national law. in civil and criminal law system, there is a different approach with this question. the lawyers have named this question as forgotten point in international criminal law. international and national jurisprudence is often different and controversial in this matter. there ...

Iran’s Criminal Policy Regarding Double Punishment in International Criminal Law

Different nations’ tendency to expand their judicial and legislative territory outside their ruling kingdom has caused conflicts in the criminal qualification and the coming into existence of legal bad effects. Among these bad effects is the double or additional punishment of someone who has been tried and received their penalty in another country before, which is at odds with the principles of...