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Manuscript ID : JEST-1801-4124 (R2) Visit : 104 Page: 269 - 284

10.22034/jest.2020.33284.4124

Article Type: Original Research

With a Glance to the Implementation of Environmental Treaties

Subject Areas : environmental low

Seyed Abbas Poorhashemi 1 (Assistant Professor, Environmental Law Department, Islamic Azad University, Science & Research Branch of Tehran, Iran & President of the Canadian Institute for International Law Expertise (CIFILE), Toronto, Canada)
mojtaba sobhaninia 2 (Ph.D. Student, Environmental Law, Tehran Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, *(Corresponding Author))

Received: 2017-10-22 Accepted : 2018-05-01 Published : 2020-11-21

Keywords: Self-executive agreement, International Treaties, Iran’s legal system, Implementation of international law, International Environmental law,

Abstract :

One of the legal problems of the implementation of international law in general and international environmental law in particular in Iran is the lack of a clear legal definition of the place of international treaties in the legal system. International treaties are norms that have no place in the hierarchy of different legal systems (based on the relationship between domestic and international law) and in some countries are superior to ordinary laws, in others they are considered the breadth of ordinary laws, and in others it is considered a lower position than the normal law. In the Iranian legal system, due to the ambiguity in the laws regarding the status of the treaty, each of the three mentioned theories has been supported by some jurists. The result of the present article, by examining and analyzing the practical procedures adopted by the three powers of the Islamic Republic of Iran, is that the Iranian legal system has chosen the approach of equality of international treaty law (and not the entire international legal system) with the domestic legal system.

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