The modern legal system in Iran has always been influenced by the textualism movement and legal formalism. The interactive resultant of these two currents has led to a kind of legal positivism in the Iranian judicial system, according which judges must present their judgment with formal judicial logic and within the framework of legal textualism. These assumptions lead us to the main question of this article, which is the nature of legal textualism and legal formalism and how they affect the rule of legal positivism in the Iranian judiciary System. In this article, we will first use a descriptive method to discuss the concept of legal textualism and legal formalism and legal positivism in order to be able to analyze the rule of paradigm based on these concepts on the Iranian judicial system and its consequences. The findings of this study will reveal that the rigid approach to law and the method of judicial inference is not always in line with legal ideals and justice. The other findings of this study will reveal interactive resultant of the textualism movement and legal formalism in the Iranian judicial system is the rule of kind legal positivism, which has confused the ontological, epistemological and anthropological foundations of legal systems based on the principles of modernity with the Islamic legal system in several principles of the constitution and ordinary laws.
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Amasi,M. and Vaezi,A. (2022). Legal positivism in the Iranian judicial system is the interactive result of legal formalism and legal textualism. The Judiciarys Law Journal, 86(117), 1-19. doi: 10.22106/jlj.2021.527673.4077
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Amasi,M. , and Vaezi,A. . "Legal positivism in the Iranian judicial system is the interactive result of legal formalism and legal textualism", The Judiciarys Law Journal, 86, 117, 2022, 1-19. doi: 10.22106/jlj.2021.527673.4077
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Amasi M., Vaezi A. (2022). 'Legal positivism in the Iranian judicial system is the interactive result of legal formalism and legal textualism', The Judiciarys Law Journal, 86(117), pp. 1-19. doi: 10.22106/jlj.2021.527673.4077
CHICAGO
M. Amasi and A. Vaezi, "Legal positivism in the Iranian judicial system is the interactive result of legal formalism and legal textualism," The Judiciarys Law Journal, 86 117 (2022): 1-19, doi: 10.22106/jlj.2021.527673.4077
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Amasi M., Vaezi A. Legal positivism in the Iranian judicial system is the interactive result of legal formalism and legal textualism. The Judiciarys Law Journal, 2022; 86(117): 1-19. doi: 10.22106/jlj.2021.527673.4077
