law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

Congo, Republic of the:
based on French civil law system and
customary law

Cook Islands:
based on New Zealand law and English common law

Coral Sea Islands:
the laws of Australia, where applicable, apply

Costa Rica:
based on Spanish civil law system; judicial review of
legislative acts in the Supreme Court; has accepted compulsory ICJ
jurisdiction

Cote d'Ivoire:
based on French civil law system and customary law;
judicial review in the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court;
has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

Croatia:
based on civil law system

Cuba:
based on Spanish and American law, with large elements of
Communist legal theory; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

Cyprus:
based on common law, with civil law modifications

Czech Republic:
civil law system based on Austro-Hungarian codes;
has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction; legal code modified to
bring it in line with Organization on Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE) obligations and to expunge Marxist-Leninist legal
theory

Denmark:
civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts;
accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations

Djibouti:
based on French civil law system, traditional practices,
and Islamic law

Dominica:
based on English common law

Dominican Republic:
based on French civil codes

Ecuador:
based on civil law system; has not accepted compulsory ICJ
jurisdiction

Egypt:
based on English common law, Islamic law, and Napoleonic
codes; judicial review by Supreme Court and Council of State
(oversees validity of administrative decisions); accepts compulsory
ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations

El Salvador:
based on civil and Roman law, with traces of common
law; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court;
accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations

Equatorial Guinea:
partly based on Spanish civil law and tribal
custom

Eritrea:
operates on the basis of transitional laws that incorporate
pre-independence statutes of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front,
revised Ethiopian laws, customary laws, and post independence
enacted laws

Estonia:
based on civil law system; no judicial review of
legislative acts

Ethiopia:
currently transitional mix of national and regional courts

Europa Island:
the