word | | Legal system |
| compulsory | Trinidad and Tobago | based on English common law; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Tunisia | based on French civil law system and Islamic law; some judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court in joint session; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Turkey | ... continental legal systems; note - member of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), although Turkey claims limited derogations on the ratified European Convention on Human Rights; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Turkmenistan | based on civil law system and Islamic law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Uganda | in 1995, the government restored the legal system to one based on English common law and customary law; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations |
| compulsory | Ukraine | based on civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | United Arab Emirates | based on a dual system of Shari'a and civil courts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | United Kingdom | ... on common law tradition with early Roman and modern continental influences; has nonbinding judicial review of Acts of Parliament under the Human Rights Act of 1998; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations |
| compulsory | United States | ... system, of which all but one (Louisiana, which is still influenced by the Napoleonic Code) is based on English common law; judicial review of legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Uruguay | based on Spanish civil law system; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Uzbekistan | based on civil law system; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Vanuatu | unified system being created from former dual French and British systems; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Venezuela | open, adversarial court system; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Vietnam | based on communist legal theory and French civil law system; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Yemen | based on Islamic law, Turkish law, English common law, and local tribal customary law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Zambia | based on English common law and customary law; judicial review of legislative acts in an ad hoc constitutional council; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Zimbabwe | mixture of Roman-Dutch and English common law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| concepts | Cuba | based on Spanish civil law and influenced by American legal concepts, with large elements of Communist legal theory; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| concepts | France | civil law system with indigenous concepts; review of administrative but not legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| concepts | Germany | civil law system with indigenous concepts; judicial review of legislative acts in the Federal Constitutional Court; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| concepts | Indonesia | based on Roman-Dutch law, substantially modified by indigenous concepts and by new criminal procedures and election codes; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| concepts | Ireland | based on English common law, substantially modified by indigenous concepts; judicial review of legislative acts in Supreme Court; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| concepts | Nepal | based on Hindu legal concepts and English common law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| conditions | 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 |
| Conservation | Antarctica | ... as murder, may apply extraterritorially; some US laws directly apply to Antarctica; for example, the Antarctic Conservation Act, 16 U.S.C. section 2401 et seq., provides civil and criminal penalties for the following ... |
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