INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................ 92 I. A DESCRIPTION OF THE TRADITIONAL SODDI DEFENSE ................... 96 A. The Majority View ...................................................................... 96 1. Evidence of the Third Party’s Involvement in the Charged Crime .............................................................

the world of law has been dominated by waves of codification or re-codification and by currents of harmonization and unification. innumerable institutions, not only in europe but around the globe including in iran, try to bring legal systems together, and to suggest uniform laws. such attempts necessarily rely on comparative law as the first methodological tool. the european experience is an il...

The standard account today of customary international law (CIL) is that it arises from the widespread and consistent practice of states followed out of a sense of legal obligation. Although commonly recited, this account is plagued by evidentiary, normative, and conceptual difficulties, and it has been subjected to increasing criticism in recent years. This paper posits a different account of C...