On Theocratic Criminal Law

Auteur
Bahman Khodadadi is an associate research scholar at Yale Law School, specialising in criminal law theory, Islamic jurisprudence, sociology of Law, and the development of Islamic law in the modern era. He pursued his doctoral thesis at the Law Faculty of the University of Münster, where he graduated with the highest distinction (summa cum laude). He is the recipient of the DAAD Award for 2016 and 2023 and is the recipient of the Harry Westermann Award from the University of Münster - an award that is granted to the best doctoral dissertation in the Law Faculty each year.

Résumé
On Theocratic Criminal Law explores the roots and structures of the criminal law system of the world's most prominent constitutional theocracy, the Islamic Republic of Iran. The book offers a critical analysis of the way criminal law functions as the centrepiece of this theocratic mode of political domination.