Structural Characteristics of Islamic Penal Law

Principles of Physician Responsibility in Jurisprudence and Iran Law: Analysis of Article 495 of Islamic Penal Code

Article 495 of Islamic punishment law can be considered as a new legal regulation for the medical community. Passing through the responsibility of the doctor and entering the contract with the factors of failure and fault, the 495 criminal code of Islamic punishment is regarded as a fate of sincere and loyal services and in practice it opens up bold action by the physician, who is always tied t...

Fascist Reform of the Penal Law in Italy, The

An Investigation into Kefa’at in Religion from the Perspective of the Quran, Narrations, Islamic Jurisprudence and Law With an Emphasis on Islamic Penal Codes of 1991 and 2013

The Islamic Penal Code adopted in 2013 on the issue of the kefa’at (sufficiency of reasons) of murderer and the murdered in religion has undergone some changes in comparison to the Islamic Penal Code of 2001. The legislator's approach in the new law is to remove the ambiguities of the former one about the issue in question and, therefore, in Articles 301, 310 and 311 of the new law, many of the...

Islamic Law and the Crime of Theft

Islamic Law , Customary Law , and Afghan Informal Justice

This report is part of the United States Institute of Peace’s (USIP) ongoing effort to understand the pluralist legal system of Afghanistan. It examines, compares, and contrasts Islamic law with traditional forms of justice in an attempt to elucidate how such rule of law approaches interact as well as provide a fuller understanding of each system to better guide rule of law practice, policy, an...