insanity as an excuse in iranian and english law

exploring interconnections between iranian efl teachers beleifs about the status of english as an international language (efl), use of mother tongue in efl classroom, and diffrences between native and non-native teachers of english

in one pole of the continuum of language learning, theoreticians and practitioners traditionally consider english as english as a second language or english as a foreign language. however, in the other pole of this continuum where english is thought of as the most effective tool for international communication, it is referred to as a lingua franca. those who favor an approach to english growing...

Surrogacy in Comparative law; With Emphasis on French, Iranian, English and Greek Law

The surrogacy is one of the artificial reproductive technologies through third party interference, which has raised many legal debates. Studying the law of various countries around the world shows a variety of different legislative approaches in this regard. In this paper, I first categorize legal systems around the world in the field of surrogacy. I then review the laws and regulations of four...

Transnational Law as an Excuse. How teaching law without the state makes legal education better

The purpose of this essay is to argue in favour of the idea that we should consider ‘transnational law’ as a legitimate part of legal education, including not only state but also non-state forms of normativity. The paper is structured as follows. First, I suggest that in the face of the existing conceptual controversy around the concept of ‘transnational law’ we should adopt a pragmatic perspec...

Insanity and the Lunacy Law

an investigation into iranian teachers consistency and bias in evaluation of students writings

while performance-based language assessment has led to an increased authenticity and content validity in the practice of writing assessment, the reliability of ratings has become a major issue. research findings have shown different reactions by native english speaker (nes) and non-native english speaker (nns) teachers to students’ writings. the focus of this study is on investigating whether i...

Criminality, insanity and the law.