in order to examine the invasion of iraq from the perspective of international law, this paper will review the legal reasons for the occupation of iraq, and also, the question of research is that whether the occupation of iraq from the perspective of right to use force is justifiable or not? by analyzing the prohibition of the use force principle in international relations and its exceptions, i...

in the system of international law, individuals enjoy some rights and states are initially obliged to grant of these rights, especially in the field of human rights and humanitarian law. if this obligation is not fulfilled, the responsible state has to compensate the injured individuals based on special rules of treaty laws and general rules of international responsibility, including customary ...

Although the concept of soft law has existed for years, scholars have not reached consensus on why states use soft law or even whether “soft law” is a coherent analytic category. In part, this confusion reflects a deep diversity in both the types of international agreements and the strategic situations that produce them. In this paper, we advance four complementary explanations for why states u...

Commitments are a persistent feature of international affairs. Disagreement over the effect of international commitments and the causes of compliance with them is equally persistent. Yet in the last decade the long-standing divide between those who believed that international rules per se shaped state behavior and those who saw such rules as epiphenomena1 or insignificant has given way to a mor...

the character of cosmopolitanism in e-commerce disputes is much more complicated than in normal international transactions. internet environment has created challenges and changes about the governing law of contracts in this space. this cyber space has technical and legal differences in compared with physical environment. in this paper, we intend to answer this question that in dispute arising ...

mitigation of violence and protection of fundamental human rights, in time of war, constitute the main object of international humanitarian law. the subject of present study is to determine whether or not, apart from international obligations, the duty to respect some basic principles of this law results directly from the constitution of the islamic republic of iran. any answer to this question...