Paraguay

• The Constitution of 1992, the highest law
• Codes and statutes in the Spanish civil-law tradition
• Decisions of the Supreme Court of Justice and its Constitutional Chamber

• The Supreme Court of Justice, with a Constitutional Chamber
• Courts of appeal
• First-instance courts and justices of the peace

A law degree and registration with the Supreme Court.

• Guaraní, an Indigenous language, is an official language, and is used in the courts.
• The Constitution recognises Indigenous peoples' own customs and their collective land rights.
• Its first Civil Code, of 1876, was taken from the Argentine one, which was based in part on a Brazilian draft.

Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia, Spain

The University of Ottawa’s JuriGlobe database lists Paraguay 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, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria.

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

Sources last reviewed: October 2026.