Mostafa Adl

Mostafa Adl

Mostafa Adl ( Persian مصطفی عدل; * 1882 in Tabriz ; † July 12, 1950 in Tehran ) was a Persian lawyer, law professor, minister, diplomat and senator.

Career

He was the son of Rokn-al-ʿAdāla, chief judge of the Ḵorāsān province in Azerbaijan. He received his primary education in Tabriz, in Egypt he received his secondary education . He then received a Bachelor of Laws from Paris University .

On August 8, 1909, he took on the role of public prosecutor in a criminal trial for the first time in Persian legal history.

He then entered the foreign service and became third class legation secretary in Cairo . He was then second class delegation secretary in Tbilisi . As a result, he worked as an unskilled worker in the Foreign Ministry's translation office. In 1918 he was Minister of the Interior in the cabinet of Hassan Vosough .

He was also employed in the Ministry of Justice and was also a professor at the School of Political Science. From June 2, 1926 to June 13, 1926 he was Minister of Justice . He then worked for the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of the Interior. During this time he received the title of Manṣur-al-Salṭana.

From 1935 to 1939 he was the Iranian envoy in Bern and as a permanent Iranian delegate to the League of Nations in Geneva . From 1940 to 1941 he was envoy in Rome .

He was recalled to Tehran after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran and the severance of relations between Iran and Italy. From August 30, 1941 to August 6, 1942, during the occupation of Iran by the Allies, he was Minister of Culture . At the same time he was also Chancellor of the Legal, Political and Economic College. In the last reshuffle of the cabinet of Mohammad Ali Foroughi , he was Minister of Education, but Foruḡi and his cabinet resigned after the Majlis had received little support. He also started as minister of culture in Ali Soheili's cabinet and became minister without portfolio in 1943. He continued this office in the cabinet of Mohammad Sa'ed Maraghei .

In 1944 he was Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Morteza Gholi Bayat . He was a Minister without Portfolio in the cabinets of Ebrahim Hakimi and Mohsen Sadr .

Mostafa Adl to represent Iran at the San Francisco Conference .

In 1945, ʿAdl gave a long, compelling lecture on the occupation of Iran and the payment of reparations for the damage caused by the war. He then took part in the United Nations Assembly and fought for the recognition of Iran's rights and territorial integrity. From April 25, 1945 to June 26, 1945 he headed the Iranian delegation to the San Francisco Conference .

In 1947 he was appointed Minister of Justice by Aḥmad Qawām . He then became again Minister without Portfolio, an office he held in the cabinets of Abdolhossein Hazhir and Mohammad Sa'ed Maraghei .

In 1949 he was elected Senator for Azerbaijan Province , a year before he died of cancer.

As a legal scholar

ʿAdl was not only a professor and chancellor of the University of Law and Politics, he was also an important legal scholar. For half a century he was a member of all commissions responsible for drafting laws, including civil law. His commentaries on constitutional and criminal law, published in Persian and French, have been taught in political and legal schools in Iran.

His most important work is Ḥoquq-e madani (Tehran, 1929), a commentary on Iranian civil law, which had more than ten editions and which became a model for future commentaries on civil law.

When the National Bank of Iran was founded in 1928 , Adl was its legal advisor and played an important role in drafting the laws relating to financial and monetary issues. Once he was also a member of the committee that oversaw the National Bank.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A public prosecutor, Mansur al-Saltaneh Adl, appeared for the first time although the office had not yet been permanently established. H. Enayat, Law, State, and Society in Modern Iran: Constitutionalism, Autocracy, and Legal Reform, 1906-1941, p. 77 in Google Book Search
2. ↑ Encyclopædia Iranica , [1]

predecessor	Office	successor
	Persian Minister of the Interior 1918
Nasrollah Entezam	Iranian envoy in Bern from 1935 to 1939	Hossein Ghadimy-Navay
	Iranian envoy in Rome 1940 to 30 August 1941	Mahmud Jam Hassan Arsanjani Hamid Aboutalebi
Mohammad Tadayyon	Iranian Minister of Culture August 30, 1941 to August 6, 1942	Ali Akbar Siassi