Our large theme is failure and success in constitution making, or the limits of constitutional democracy. The convergence of recent scholarly work in political science and law and political events throughout the world make this a timely project inside and outside of the academy. The number of new constitutional texts written in support of regime formation in the past thirty years is astonishing...

shia’s political jurisprudence has experienced some ups and downs along historical developments. in this context، safavi age is an era that shia’s political jurisprudence has taken new approach and the shia’s public jurisprudence has become prosperious. because of special politic conditions of previous eras,،many subjects related to shia’s public jurisprudence hadn’t found opportunity for being...

Psychiatrists have proposed broadened commitment statues based on need for care and treatment, and under which judges have no role in deciding cases of treatment refusal. The mental health bar has consistently opposed these proposals on constitutional and common law grounds. The authors propose new commitment criteria based on incompetency to decide about hospitalization, and inability to live ...