it is generally accepted that no one is allowed to abuse his legal rights accorded by a country for evasion from some limitations provided by the same country and several laws and verdicts have considered and confirmed this requirement as a rule. nevertheless there is neither common sense about neither the conditions under which such a rule may be applied nor the reactions to be taken against s...

1 Author's Biographical Note: Randall Peerenboom obtained a B.A. in Philosophy, M.A. in Chinese Religion and Ph.D. in Philosophy before obtaining a J.D. from Columbia Law School. He has written more than 60 articles and several books on Chinese law and philosophy. From 1994 to 1998, he practiced law with a major international law firm in Beijing. He currently teaches Chinese law and internation...

This article examines the meanings of “attack” in international law. It points out that the term is used in two distinct bodies of that law. First, the term “armed attack” appears in the jus ad bellum, which governs when a State may resort to force as an instrument of its national policy. In that context, it serves as a condition precedent to the resort to force in self-defence pursuant to Arti...

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the purpose of this article is to present a comparative study of the views of islamic logicians on ‘verity-propositions’ and nelson goodman’s ideas on law-like statements. in order to achieve this, first we describe the analyses of islamic logician of the meaning of factual proposition and goodman`s presentation of law-like statements. then, using a comparative approach, we explain the points o...

when there is a title retention clause, the seller is the owner of the subject of sale. the buyer, might yet, sell the same chattel to a third bona fide person. in the conflicts of the interests of the owner and bona fide purchaser, the right of one of them should prevail. iranian law and its religious background always prefers the right of the owner and neglects the right of the bona fide purc...