word | | Legal system |
| civil | Equatorial Guinea | partly based on Spanish civil law and tribal custom; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| civil | Eritrea | primary basis is the Ethiopian legal code of 1957, with revisions; new civil, commercial, and penal codes have not yet been promulgated; government also issues unilateral proclamations setting laws and policies; also ... |
| civil | Estonia | based on civil law system; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations |
| civil | Ethiopia | based on civil law; currently transitional mix of national and regional courts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| civil | Finland | civil law system based on Swedish law; the president may request the Supreme Court to review laws; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations |
| civil | France | civil law system with indigenous concepts; review of administrative but not legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| civil | Gabon | based on French civil law system and customary law; judicial review of legislative acts in Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| civil | Georgia | based on civil law system; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| civil | Germany | civil law system with indigenous concepts; judicial review of legislative acts in the Federal Constitutional Court; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| civil | Greece | based on codified Roman law; judiciary divided into civil, criminal, and administrative courts; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations |
| civil | Guatemala | civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| civil | Guinea | based on French civil law system, customary law, and decree; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations |
| civil | Guinea-Bissau | based on French civil law; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| civil | Haiti | based on Roman civil law system; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| civil | Honduras | rooted in Roman and Spanish civil law with increasing influence of English common law; recent judicial reforms include abandoning Napoleonic legal codes in favor of the oral adversarial system; accepts ICJ jurisdiction ... |
| civil | Iceland | civil law system based on Danish law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| civil | Iraq | based on European civil and Islamic law under the framework outlined in the Iraqi Constitution; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| civil | Italy | based on civil law system; appeals treated as new trials; judicial review under certain conditions in Constitutional Court; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| civil | Japan | modeled after German civil law system with English-American influence; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations |
| civil | Korea, North | based on Prussian civil law system with Japanese influences and Communist legal theory; no judicial review of legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| civil | Korea, South | combines elements of continental European civil law systems, Anglo-American law, and Chinese classical thought; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| civil | Kuwait | civil law system with Islamic law significant in personal matters; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| civil | Latvia | based on civil law system with traces of Socialist legal traditions and practices; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| civil | Lebanon | mixture of Ottoman law, canon law, Napoleonic code, and civil law; no judicial review of legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| civil | Libya | based on Italian and French civil law systems and Islamic law; separate religious courts; no constitutional provision for judicial review of legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| civil | Liechtenstein | local civil and penal codes based on civil law system; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations |
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