فصلنامه پژوهش حقوق عمومی
سال بیست و سوم شماره 73 (زمستان 1400)

The issue of pension payments is a serious challenge for governments in today's world. As the main institution, which is faced with a large number of new pensioners every year, governments seek to create pension systems in line with the political-economic structure of the country. The pension payment system in European-American countries is older than the domestic situation, and for this reason, in order to organize and reform the pension payment system in Iran, it is necessary to refer to successful cases in this regard. In this regard, Norway is one of the countries whose pension system has created the highest level of welfare for retirees, and this has led to a relatively high level of social satisfaction with the government. Compared to Norway, the pension system in Iran is facing many weaknesses and problems, so much so that this issue is named as the third major problem in the country. The defective structure of pensions in Iran is moving in the direction that providing pensions is one of the most important challenges of the government. It can be a way to model and reform the pension system in Iran.

Detained witnesses of the Congolese government applied for non-extradition to their repective government, seeking asulum in the Netherlands and declaring illegal the continuation of the detention by claiming with the danger of life after their testimony against the government before the the International Criminal Court. The primary branch of the Court in the interpretation of articles 68(1) and 93(7) of the Statute and their relationship with article 21(3) of the Statute holds that the custody tribunal will continue to detain the witnesses until the end of the Dutch administration's application for their asylum. Nevertheless, the Court opens a prospect before the Dutch court in order to continue to detain the witnesses in contravention of the international commitments of the Dutch government to protect the freedom of individuals in its territory. Dutch primary branch disqualifies decision makers from arresting witnesses, but the Dutch court of appeal reverse the European Court of Human Rights' recent judicial review in its fourth witness case. Finally, the Court of appeal judges affirm proceedings of the European Court of Human Rights and the Dutch court of appeal, taking into account the provisions of the Statute.

International commercial arbitration imposes heavy costs to the parties involved. In this regard, one of the new phenomena in international commercial arbitration is "financing of court costs by a third party investor. There are several reasons for the emergence of a third party investor: 1- involved parties may not have the resources to pay for the costs of arbitration or they may be reluctant to use their funds to finance the litigation: 2. the uncertainty of receiving compensation as a result of paying the arbitration fees might encourage the parties to transfer this risk to a third party; 3. having its own advantages and disadvantages. Since the funder holds the power of the purse, TPF entails the risk of the control of the claim being transferred to the third party funder. We might ask whether international arbitration tribunals should examine the extent of the investor's influence in determining the allocation of costs or not. In addition, is it essential to disclose the third parties contracts confidential? Overall, it is concluded that those mentioned Tribunals should allocate and guarantee the arbitration cost and agree on disclosing of third parties fund contracts under urgent conditions by international arbitration tribunal.

"A Theory of Justice" is a project in the Kantian school by John Rawls, the twentieth-century philosopher. The "Veil of Ignorance" is one of the prominent notions of his theory of justice, which is born in another abstract concept as the "Original Position". Rawls seeks to establish fairness or impartiality in the laws and administration of society by using such a tool. The present article has tried descriptively and analytically to emphasize the capacity of applying the theory of veil of ignorance in criminal law by applying this doctrine. Finally, the writing of this article demonstrates that an applied approach to Rawls' explanatory model can lead to a better understanding of the legal principles and rules of a legal system (descriptively), and to the extent that the theory is immune from subjectivity, it may criticize criminal justice and its rules.

According to article 98 of the Civil Service Management Act of Iran, “the acceptance of foreign citizenship” by staff and executives provided that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmation, will result in termination of their public service. Acceptance of citizenship of a foreign country while preserving national citizenship leads to the so-called dual citizenship. Despite the many domestic and international efforts to prevent the state of dual citizenship, there are sometimes people who are "stateless" or have "dual citizenship". In recent years, many legal arguments have been raised about the dual nationality of Iranian political authorities. In this paper, some legal dimensions of this issue have been analyzed and evaluated from the perspective of public law teachings. The basic premise of this article is based on the assumption that the mere existence of two nationalities cannot be undesirable in law, but in the case of the political dual nationality authorities, the legislator must be cautious in setting up employment regulations.

The right to be elected is one of the important examples of right to self-determination. Although this right is not absolute, its restriction must be justified. Unjustified insistence upon meritocracy and trusteeship of candidates, has resulted in violation of the right to be elected and the right to vote. From a socio-political point of view, such restrictions harm democratic aspect of any political system. In I.R. Iran, necessitation of qualification of being just, supposing official positions as religious trust and argument to the principle of incompetency and non-existence of legal qualifications have resulted in many challenges for free, fair and competitive election. Subjective and non-institutional assessment of the nominees by the Guardian Council has worsened the situation. The aim of this article is to evaluate the method of assessment of qualifications of nominees. The article suggests to rely upon those fiqhi theories that present a more tolerant view on the qualification of being just. Also due to the fact that people are the owners of public sphere, it is possible to presume official authorities as contractual trust rather than religious and legal trust. Similarly, there is way to rely upon the presumption of non-sinfulness instead of being just to reduce some restrictions on qualifications of nominees.

Climate change is considered to be the biggest crisis of the present era, and traditional approaches have not been very effective to deal with it yet. Thus, in recent decades, geoengineering which includes two main methods of carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation management has come to the attention of countries. Like other emerging technologies, besides its benefits, most important of which to combat climate change, due to scientific uncertainty, they might have harmful effects on the environment. The present article has aimed to describe geoengineering methods and their environmental pros and cons. The findings of the article show that although the geoengineering methods in international environmental treaties are scattered, mostly in the form of implicit expressions, the rules and the actions of member states indicate the different and sometimes contradictory attitudes toward geoengineering, which varies from explicit or implicit approval of some methods, especially in treaties related to climate change, to explicit and implicit opposition of others, such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, the London Protocol, and the Ozone Conservation Convention. This dispersion is so great that a specific legal system cannot be assumed.

As international trade is expanding, international trade and tax disputes are increasing. Under international tax agreements, there are two mechanisms for the resolution of potential disputes between contracting States. These agreements mostly rely on a form of negotiation known as the “Mutual Agreement Process (MAP)” as the main mechanism for the settlement of disputes. During the last decade, the inclusion of “ad hoc arbitration” as a new dispute resolution mechanism in international tax treaties has become popular to augment the MAP. Iran has long concluded several international tax agreements with several countries for the avoidance of double taxation. Due to Iran’s macroeconomic policy for relying more on tax revenues as an alternative to revenues from the petroleum industry, it is important that the Iranian lawyers seek to focus more on tax law and tax dispute resolution mechanisms. The purpose of this article is to introduce and critically analyse the dispute resolution mechanisms of international tax agreements. In this article, to make some suggestions for the improvement of the dispute resolution system of tax treaties, the strengths and weaknesses of the MAP and ad hoc arbitration, will be scrutinised by adopting a descriptive-analytical approach.

Properties of NGO are classified within 4 main items including: Non-profit-making, non-political, non-governmental and volunteer oriented and its mission is filling probable gaps between government, citizens and transferring goals of society to public authorities within specific framework. Although “realistically” speaking and under influence of some policies, there are some differences between “current” status of Iranian mosques with functions of NGO and in relation to the feature of being “Non-governmental”, there is no significant compatibility; from “Theoretical” point of view there is maximum compatibility and proximity between “noble” functions of mosque with that of NGO. Findings of this descriptive-analytical research showed that it can and should be considered negligent in considering the mosque as an NGO, so that by reforming the laws, regulations and macro-cultural policies in this field and accompanying the mosque with all the main components of the NGO, the strengthening and developing of the "civil society" can be achieved.

Article 10 (2) of the Law on the Organization and Procedure of the Administrative Justice Court determines the competence and ranges of the Court's powers to deal with and investigate objections and complaints against the final decisions of exceptional administrative authorities. According to the analysis of the General Assembly of the Court of Administrative Justice in decisions number 37, 38, 39 dated 1989/10/2 and also the branches of the Court from paragraph 2 of Article 10, only real or legal persons of private law are allowed to file complaints and objections against final decisions. Exceptional Administrative authorities and the legal persons of general law don’t have that kind of power.Recently, on 2020/7/14, according to the ,Uniform Judicial Precedent numbered 792 of the General Assembly of the Supreme Court, the jurisdiction of the Administrative Justice Court to review the appeal filed by the Regional State Water Company against the decision of the Commission for Groundwater Affairs is recognized. Now the question arises is that whether the Uniform Judicial Precedent No. 792 is exceptional and is only about appealing the indefinite opinions of the judge of the Groundwater Commission?