Azerbaijan

• The Constitution of 1995, the highest law
• Codes and statutes, such as the Civil Code (2000) and the Criminal Code
• The European Convention on Human Rights, as a treaty
• Decisions of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court

• The Constitutional Court, which reviews laws and hears individual complaints
• The Supreme Court
• Courts of appeal, and first-instance courts, including specialised courts such as the commercial court

A law degree and a qualification exam, then membership of the Collegium of Advocates.

• It is a member of the Council of Europe, so the European Court of Human Rights can rule on its cases.
• The Nakhchivan region has its own autonomous status within the Constitution.
• The legal system moved from a Soviet model to a civil-law model after independence.

Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, Russia, Kazakhstan

The University of Ottawa’s JuriGlobe database lists Azerbaijan as: Civil law. It names the systems in order of importance.

The map colours a country by the first-named system, and shows both civil-law and common-law countries as “mixed”. It is a simplification, and real systems are rarely pure.

Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso.

• JuriGlobe: world legal systems (University of Ottawa)
• Constitute Project: constitution of Azerbaijan

Sources last reviewed: October 2026.