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"A comprehensive and detail-oriented analysis of the rule of law in the Islamic Republic of Iran and its social, political and historical contexts. The interdisciplinary and comparative nature of the book appeals to readers at the crossroads of comparative law, social science, Middle East and Islamic studies"--
Sommario
1. Governing the Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran Mirjam Künkler; 2. Law Enforcement and the Judiciary in Post-Revolutionary Iran Saeid Golkar; 3. Rule of Law or Rule by Law? Iran's Bar Association as a pawn in Islamic-republican Contestations Mirjam Künkler; 4. Shiʿi Family Law under the Rule of Law? The Iranian Model and Current Approaches in the Shiʿi World Hannah L. Richter; 5. The Islamic Penal Code of 2013: Traditions and Innovations Silvia Tellenbach; 6. The Administration of Criminal Justice in Iran: Ideology, Judicial Personalism and the Cynical Manipulation of Security Drewery Dyke and Hadi Enayat; 7. Reform from within? Hākemiyat-e Qānun from the Reformist Era until 2022 Mirjam Künkler; 8. Iran's Religious and Ethnic Minorities in the Eyes of the Judiciary and the Security Apparatus Shahin Milani; 9. Legal Barriers to Key Populations Accessing HIV/AIDS Services in Iran, and Creative Responses to Overcome Them Arash Alaei and Kamiar Alaei; 10. The Problem of Overcrowded Prisons in the Islamic Republic of Iran Anna Enayat and Hadi Enayat; 11. Labour Rights in Post-Revolutionary Iran M. Stella Morgana; 12. The Effects of the JCPOA, and Subsequent US Withdrawal, on Iranian Law Faezeh Manteghi and Seyed Emadeddin Tabataba'i; 13. Multi-layered Mechanisms of Control and Censorship of Arts and Culture in the Islamic Republic of Iran Roozbeh Mirebrahimi and Azadeh Pourzand; 14. The Legal Situation Regarding Assisted Reproduction in Iran: Current Developments and Concerns Shirin Naef; 15. Conclusions: Regressions and Progressions in the Rule of Law of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hadi Enayat and Mirjam Künkler.
Info autore
Hadi Enayat is the author of Law, State and Society in Modern Iran (Palgrave Macmillan 2013 – winner of the Biennial Mossadegh Prize 2013), and Islam and Secularism in Post-Colonial Thought: A Cartography of Asadian Genealogies (Palgrave Macmillan 2017). He is a Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy Centre in London and Lecturer at the Aga Khan University. He has worked as an expert witness for UK courts in Iranian asylum cases.Mirjam Künkler is Research Professor at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. Her recent books include Female Religious Authority in Shiʿi Islam: Past and Present, Edinburgh University Press, 2021, and A Secular Age Beyond the West, Cambridge University Press, 2018; among others. She is a Principal Investigator of the Iran Data Portal, and sits on the editorial boards of journals in Iranian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Law, and the Sociology of Religion.
Riassunto
A comprehensive and detail-oriented analysis of the rule of law in the Islamic Republic of Iran and its social, political and historical contexts. The interdisciplinary and comparative nature of the book appeals to readers at the crossroads of comparative law, social science, Middle East and Islamic studies.
Prefazione
The volume assesses the rule of law and rule by law in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
