the mental disabled are not regarded responsible for their harmful behavior as they are unable to realize the harmful effect of their conduct. thus their behavior cannot be considered as culpable and they are not at fault in a moral sense. however french law (art. 489- 2 code civil) and iranian law (art. 1216 iranian civil code), impose legal liability to such persons for their tortiuos behavio...

it is a possibility that when the parties to a contract choose the law of a country as the applicable law, that law may reject such agreement and refer the contract to another law. it is generally accepted that in such a situation, the provisions of the law chosen, excluding rules relating to conflict of laws, should apply to the contract. however, some lawyers believe that the substantive prov...

Massive actuator arrays found their applications in robotics, pharmaceutics, aerospace, etc. Compared with electrically and/or pneumatically powered actuator array, hydraulic actuator has the comprehensive advantages of higher force density (i.e. force / actuation area), better controllability, and simpler remote control accessibility. This paper presents approaches to construct and control a m...

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...