A Comparative Study of Legal Superior Order in the light of Moral Blameworthiness

The present paper studies the nature of legal superior order from the point of view of legal and meta legal (blameworthiness) bases and addresses this issue that legal superior order is not considered crime in the realm of law on the basis of a teleological interpretation and in a meta legal  scope cannot be blameworthy according to criminalization considerations and justification bases (public benefit and legal right). It is solely subject to objective conditions as a justifiable defense. This paper critically evaluates three well-known approaches of absolute obedience, sole responsibility and observance of legal formalities and compares it with criminal law of some Greco-German systems including France, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan and rereads the condition of Iranian criminal law.