Hossein Fazli Maghsoudi; zeinalabedin Taghavi Fardoud; Alireza Saberian
Abstract
Property and the resulting rights have always been honored and protected, and of course, restricted and deprived. In the relevant laws and regulations, although property is one of the basic human rights, it may be violated and restricted in some necessities such as securing the public interests of society, ...
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Property and the resulting rights have always been honored and protected, and of course, restricted and deprived. In the relevant laws and regulations, although property is one of the basic human rights, it may be violated and restricted in some necessities such as securing the public interests of society, so that the damage leads to its deprivation and abstraction of property from the owner. The Islamic legislator has tried to expropriate property in accordance with property rights and according to the needs of society. Therefore, measures such as the provision of the Court of Administrative Justice and the Guardian Council have been considered in order to protect private property. In this article, which has been compiled in a library method, we will be in a position to answer the question of how the Court of Administrative Justice can prevent or protect the expropriation of persons, but the result is that the Court of Administrative Justice cannot prevent expropriation alone or without legal protection or fully protect the right to property.
Mehdi Zahedi; shirin sharifzadeh
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Freedom of expression includes the freedom to express, access and dissemination of information, whereas copyright, by protecting the original works of authorship, restricts use, access and dissemination of the protected works. When an expression is protected by copyright, freedom of expression or press ...
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Freedom of expression includes the freedom to express, access and dissemination of information, whereas copyright, by protecting the original works of authorship, restricts use, access and dissemination of the protected works. When an expression is protected by copyright, freedom of expression or press can be restricted. Some are of the opinion that these two rights are, in fact, not in conflict with each other but rather derived from the same social values seeking to protect each right. Common goals such as flow of cultural ideas or promoting creativity in the society causes interaction and synergy between the two. Idea-expression dichotomy by determining the scope of the copyright and distinguishing what belongs to the public domain, which is not a protected, will ensure a constructive interaction between the two and protects the public interest and dose not restrict freedom of expression. This article will discuss how to strike a balance between the public interest in freedom of expression and the private interests of the copyright owners without undermining the other. Idea-expression dichotomy as a counterbalance between these two rights is the cornerstone of this article.
hamid hamidian; Ali Rezaeiee
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Principles of international investment law and treaties are more about protecting foreign investors. Therefore, in investment agreements that are signed between the host countries with the investors or their respective governments, the host country is obliged to provide the necessary investment support ...
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Principles of international investment law and treaties are more about protecting foreign investors. Therefore, in investment agreements that are signed between the host countries with the investors or their respective governments, the host country is obliged to provide the necessary investment support and any action contrary to the investment agreement is prohibited. In some cases, however, the protection of the public and fundamental interests of society requires the host country to take actions contrary to the provisions of the treaty, as encouraging and promoting investment should not be at the expense of the internal public interest. So the main challenge is how the public interest in host countries can have convergence with investment criteria? The most important findings of this study indicate that although there is no uniform procedure in this regard, but the new approach of most tribunals is that if the government's actions are based on reasonable criteria such as necessity, similar conditions and appropriateness, it is allowed. Of course this is achieved by providing a balanced interpretation of the requirements of international investment and creating a balance between the public interest of the host country and the requirements of the rules of international investment.
Majid Najarzadeh Hanjani
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Since the beginning of its theory, the public services faced with conceptual ambiguity and its substantive diagnostic criteria, at least in practice, has not been clear. The privatization of public services and undermining the criterion of "government intervention" and "public interest purpose" added ...
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Since the beginning of its theory, the public services faced with conceptual ambiguity and its substantive diagnostic criteria, at least in practice, has not been clear. The privatization of public services and undermining the criterion of "government intervention" and "public interest purpose" added to the existing ambiguity. In these circumstances, the public function doctrine, aimed at protecting the fundamental rights of citizens and their legitimate expectations and consolidation of state responsibility and prescription of regulatory in the market of public services was outlined and welcomed. According to this doctrine, apart from public services that are offered directly by the government, services that were previously provided by the government, but are now provided by the private sector, are also consideredaspublic services. This paper usingdescriptive and analyticalmethod, at first, analyzesverbalandsubstantiveconceptof public service, then reviews thecontentof public function doctrine and evolution of concept of public service and finally studiespurposes and effects ofadoption of public function doctrine.
Mahnaz Bayat Komitaki; Mahdi Balavi
Volume 17, Issue 47 , October 2015, , Pages 123-155
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"Rights" and "Public Interest" are among the key elements of political , legal , ethical and social discourse in almost any society around the world including the contemporary legal and political discourse of Iran. Meanwhile, societies inevitably have certain reciprocal tensions resulting from diversities ...
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"Rights" and "Public Interest" are among the key elements of political , legal , ethical and social discourse in almost any society around the world including the contemporary legal and political discourse of Iran. Meanwhile, societies inevitably have certain reciprocal tensions resulting from diversities in their ethical believes and contradictory claims. That is why theorists in political philosophy and modern law have strived towards advancing solutions to such controversial strains. To name a few, Hobbes and Hegel have theorized the notion of State Interest, recognizing the interest of a limited number of governors as public interest, based on which they privileged it over individual rights and freedom of citizens. Granting, devesting , dispensing or restriction of any sort of individual rights they maintained could only be realized under the auspices of the same . This theory has its own advocates and critics in Shiiat world .Shaikh Mofid and Shaikh Toosi are among the proponents whereas Shaikh Ansari and Imam Khomeini fall under the category of opponents. In this paper, after introducing State Interest doctrine, we shall later review the misconceptions and practical challenges around the concept in light of Balance theory as a convergent theory in the relation between individual rights and public interest.
mahnaz bayat komitaki; mahdi balavi
Volume 15, Issue 42 , January 2015, , Pages 9-42
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AbstractThe concepts of right and expediency are two of the concepts that have beengoverned over political, ethical, legal and social discourses in the most ofcountries. However, due to the heterogeneity of the protection of the individual'srights requirements and the improvement of the general interest, ...
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AbstractThe concepts of right and expediency are two of the concepts that have beengoverned over political, ethical, legal and social discourses in the most ofcountries. However, due to the heterogeneity of the protection of the individual'srights requirements and the improvement of the general interest, the appearing ofan extent of conflict between these rights and those interests is inevitable. Theresearchers with various viewpoints about relationship between right and publicinterest have presented different solutions for such a conflict. Some of them havepresented the idea of right authority and insisted on priority of rights and someother have regarded the public interest as a superior consideration. Some ofresent theorists— by introducing the theory of exceptionalism— have insisted onthis idea that we are facing the “normalization of emergency conditions” speciallysince 9/11 and asked for offering more authority to the state in order to restrict therights while believing that public interests have precedence over the individual’srights and freedoms. In this essay, we will attempt to criticise the theory ofexceptionalism and then introduce the theory of balance as a convergent theoryabout relationship between individual rights and collective interests.