Linguistic Criticism on Iranian Private International Law

Language is means of conveying messages and the Government uses it as a way how to express its will as subjects of the law. Legislative approvals which have been often originated from a wide variety of parliamentarians’ inconsistent proposals based on their individual and political conflicts may be lack of transparency to convey messages appropriately. Perhaps the legislator cannot absolutely be wise, and inevitably, he/she fails to express his/her intentions. There are many examples of these failures in Iranian Private International Laws such as Articles (963), (968) and (973) of the Civil Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran also the Act on “facilitation of nationality for children who come from the marriage of Iranian women to foreign men” (which has been recently approved). A linguistic approach to the research shows that inevitably, the Iranian Civil Code requires to rewrite substantively and formatively; regardless of any fundamental change of the International Private Law