word | | Legal system |
| compulsory | Chad | based on French civil law system and Chadian customary law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Chile | ... French and Austrian law; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction; note - in June 2005, Chile completed overhaul of its criminal justice system to ... |
| compulsory | China | ... on civil law system; derived from Soviet and continental civil code legal principles; legislature retains power to interpret statutes; constitution ambiguous on judicial review of legislation; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Colombia | ... criminal code modeled after US procedures was enacted into law in 2004 and reached full implemention in January 2008; judicial review of executive and legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Comoros | French and Islamic law in a new consolidated code; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | a new constitution was adopted by referendum 18 December 2005; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations |
| compulsory | Congo, Republic of the | based on French civil law system and customary law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Costa Rica | based on Spanish civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court; has accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Cote d'Ivoire | based on French civil law system and customary law; judicial review in the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations |
| compulsory | Croatia | based on Austro-Hungarian law system with Communist law influences; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | 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 |
| compulsory | Cyprus | based on English common law, with civil law modifications; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations |
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