With extreme delight, we have the new issue of the bi-quarterly Research and Development in Public Law journal ready. It is imperative to express my sincere gratitude towards all the staff of the Iranian Law and Legal Research Institute who have been actively involved in all the processes to this point. This issue embraces papers on various aspects – municipal, comparative and international – of public law. In any case, this journal is a vehicle for the pathology of the public legal system and for laying out genuine research projects for tackling the problems of the system. On the other hand, scholars are invited to put forth discussions and arguments for the constitutive elements of a public legal system, as such elements are not the same in different such systems in diverse countries. Moreover, we put an emphasis on the international legal developments which may help the relevant local law. Further, and more importantly, the theoretical foundations of public law are to be taken seriously, as the modern version of this branch of the legal system is in its seminal stage in the country. Therefore, new ideas in public law for our context are in need of theoretical bases which succeed in reconciling them with the local-historical heritage of the country while tackling the problem of arbitrary rule and that of international rivalries therein.