Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in Action by Aida Avanessian

Abstract

Here is another study of the work of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, by an Iranian lawyer now working in London. The book, which is based on her PhD thesis for the University of London, packs a great deal of information into its 320 pages, and is supported throughout by full citation to relevant Tribunal decisions. The author's knowledge of Iranian law is deployed effectively at various points. If her treatment of some aspects is shallower than that of Wayne Mapp in The Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, The first ten years, 1981–1991 (Manchester University Press, 1993) e.g. the distinction between admissible unjust enrichment claims and excluded contract-based claims where there was an exclusive forum clause giving jurisdiction to the Iranian courts (pp. 18, 19), she deals with other issues which neither Mapp nor Westberg in International Transactions and Claims involving Government Parties: Case Law of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal...