Organ and Tissue Transplants in Comparative Law

Although transplant of organs and tissues have given rise to various medical, legal and even moral and reli-gious problems, there is no doubt that the law can remove many of the existing obstacles. While in many aspects, prosperity of transplant operations in the world has been made possible to a great extent according to the law, this same law has sometimes acted as an impediment against progress in this area. The present article tries to conduct a general survey on the problem of organ transplant and reviews the approaches of different legal systems towards this matter. They include the law and comparative study of organ and tissue transplant in several developed countries and some Muslim countries.