word | | Legal system |
| compulsory | Denmark | civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations |
| compulsory | Dominican Republic | based on French civil codes; Criminal Procedures Code modified in 2004 to include important elements of an accusatory system; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Ecuador | based on civil law system; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Egypt | based on Islamic and civil law (particularly Napoleonic codes); judicial review by Supreme Court and Council of State (oversees validity of administrative decisions); accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations |
| compulsory | El Salvador | based on civil and Roman law with traces of common law; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Equatorial Guinea | partly based on Spanish civil law and tribal custom; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Eritrea | ... government also issues unilateral proclamations setting laws and policies; also relies on customary and post-independence-enacted laws and, for civil cases involving Muslims, Islamic law; does not accept compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Estonia | based on civil law system; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations |
| compulsory | Ethiopia | based on civil law; currently transitional mix of national and regional courts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Fiji | based on British system; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | Finland | civil law system based on Swedish law; the president may request the Supreme Court to review laws; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations |
| compulsory | France | civil law system with indigenous concepts; review of administrative but not legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| compulsory | 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 |
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