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Laya Joneydi
لعیا جنیدی
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Joneydi in 2019
Vice President of Iran
for Legal Affairs
In office
9 August 2017 – 1 September 2021
President Hassan Rouhani
Preceded by Majid Ansari
Succeeded by Mohammad Dehghan
Personal details
Alma mater University of Tehran Harvard University
Occupation
  • Lawyer
  • academic

Laya Joneidi (Persian: لعیا جنیدی) is an Iranian lawyer and associate professor of private law at University of Tehran, who served as the vice president for legal affairs in the administration of President Hassan Rouhani.

From 2002 to 2003, she worked on research "A Comparative Study of Commercial Arbitration in Islamic Law and Other Major Contemporary Legal Systems" at Harvard Law School.

Views

Joneydi maintains that procedural justice is "inquisitorial and accusatorial". She believes "there is no hindrance that prevents women from serving in judicial posts in Islam".

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