contrary to iranian and german law which do not agree on legal status of contracts obtained by corruption, in common law system such contract is typically deemed against public policy and void. but icsid convention, in spite of relying on public policy, considers these contracts voidable.

the law of the continental europe is considered an offspring of the roman law. in the roman law the “fault” was considered as the basis of liability. the doctrine of fault was included in the french civil code of 1804 through the roman law, and from there, made its way into the laws of other european and non-european countries. according to the instruction of the holy prophet of islam (pbuh), i...

positivism is an empirical approach for understanding of human communication and phenomena, which raised firstly french famous thinker “august comte”. human and social sciences were under domination of positive thought for a long time. in criminal law inter alia italian famous thinkers sought to analyses the crime problem with a positive approach. however, some of their point of view such as bo...

Our article is a methodological critique of the recent legal origins literature. We start by showing that the legal origins literature cannot easily be based on the efficiency hypothesis of the common law. By debunking the relationship between the efficiency hypothesis and the legal origins literature, we are left with no consistent theory to explain the alleged inferiority of French civil law....

this is the obligation of judge in civil trial to finding substantive rule of law which is governing to a case in current resource of law. as an important role, it depends to have an accurate acknowledge about rule's resources and applying it in governing legal system. in iranian positive law we can see two rule of law concerning this obligation, first in principle 167 of constitution and ...

presently, conflict rules have gone beyond inflexible and purposeless physical connection factors and have approached instrumentalism and economic functions.  this evolution defined as rule utilitarianism in conflict of laws and determination of applicable law to product liability in rome ii regulations in this manner.  protection of consumers in this category has been said to be the foundation...