word | | Legal system |
| law | Antigua and Barbuda | common law based on the English model |
| law | Argentina | civil law system based on West European legal systems; note - efforts at civil code reform begun in the mid-1980s has stagnated |
| law | Armenia | civil law system |
| law | Aruba | civil law system based on the Dutch civil code |
| law | Australia | common law system based on the English model |
| law | Austria | civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts by the Constitutional Court |
| law | Azerbaijan | civil law system |
| law | Bahamas, The | common law system based on the English model |
| law | Bahrain | mixed legal system of Islamic law and English common law |
| law | Bangladesh | mixed legal system of mostly English common law and Islamic law |
| law | Barbados | English common law; no judicial review of legislative acts |
| law | Belarus | civil law system; note - nearly all major codes (civil, civil procedure, criminal, criminal procedure, family and labor) have been revised and came into force in 1999 or 2000 |
| law | Belgium | civil law system based on the French Civil Code; note - Belgian law continues to be modified in conformance with the legislative norms mandated by the European Union; judicial review of legislative acts |
| law | Belize | English common law |
| law | Benin | civil law system modeled largely on the French system and some customary law |
| law | Bermuda | English common law |