Abstract
The failed attempts at legal and judicial reform in the second half of the nineteenth century were followed in its last decade by major challenges to the Qajar monarchy in the shape of a political movement culminating in a demand for constitutional government and the rule of law. This chapter will look at legal developments in the period from the 1906 Constitutional Revolution until March 1911, when a reforming minister of justice, Moshir al- Dawleh, introduced the codes that would form the basis of the modern Iranian legal system. The chapter will begin by sketching the political background to these years before discussing the role of law and justice in the discourse of the constitutional movement. The making of Iran’s first constitution in which the judicial clauses were a particularly vexed question will then be discussed before reviewing early attempts at judicial reform. The chapter ends by looking briefly at the legal process during the immediate postconstitutional period.
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Enayat, H. (2013). Law and Justice in the Mashrutiyat, 1891–1911. In: Law, State, and Society in Modern Iran. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137282026_3
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