word | | Legal system |
| jurisdiction | Ukraine | based on civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| jurisdiction | United Arab Emirates | based on a dual system of Sharia and civil courts; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| jurisdiction | 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 |
| jurisdiction | 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 |
| jurisdiction | Uruguay | based on Spanish civil law system; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| jurisdiction | Uzbekistan | based on civil law system; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| jurisdiction | Vanuatu | unified system being created from former dual French and British systems; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| jurisdiction | Venezuela | open, adversarial court system; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| jurisdiction | Vietnam | based on communist legal theory and French civil law system; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| jurisdiction | Yemen | based on Islamic law, Turkish law, English common law, and local tribal customary law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| jurisdiction | 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 |
| jurisdiction | Zimbabwe | mixture of Roman-Dutch and English common law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| Justice | Antarctica | ... to $10,000 in fines and one year in prison; the National Science Foundation and Department of Justice share enforcement responsibilities; Public Law 95-541, the US Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978, as amended ... |
| justice | Chile | ... 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 a new, US-style adversarial system |
| justice | Guernsey | the laws of the UK, where applicable, apply; justice is administered by the Royal Court |
| justice | Jersey | the laws of the UK, where applicable, apply and local statutes; justice is administered by the Royal Court |
| Justice | Panama | based on civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court of Justice; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations |
| Justice | Paraguay | based on Argentine codes, Roman law, and French codes; judicial review of legislative acts in Supreme Court of Justice; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| Justice | Poland | ... judicial review of legislative acts, but rulings of the Constitutional Tribunal are final; court decisions can be appealed to the European Court of Justice in Strasbourg; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations |
| justice | Puerto Rico | based on Spanish civil code and within the US Federal system of justice |
| Justice | World | all members of the UN are parties to the statute that established the International Court of Justice (ICJ) or World Court |
| justices | Algeria | ... based on French and Islamic law; judicial review of legislative acts in ad hoc Constitutional Council composed of various public officials, including several Supreme Court justices; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| Kandyan | Sri Lanka | a highly complex mixture of English common law, Roman-Dutch, Kandyan, and Jaffna Tamil law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
| Kenya | Kenya | ... law, tribal law, and Islamic law; judicial review in High Court; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; constitutional amendment of 1982 making Kenya a de jure one-party state repealed in 1991 |
| Kenyan | Kenya | based on Kenyan statutory law, Kenyan and English common law, tribal law, and Islamic law; judicial review in High Court; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; constitutional amendment of 1982 making Kenya ... |
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