Slovenia

• The Constitution of 1991, the highest law
• Codes and statutes, such as the Obligations Code and the Criminal Code
• European Union law, which takes priority in its area
• Decisions of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court

• The Supreme Court at the top of the ordinary courts
• The Constitutional Court, which reviews laws and hears constitutional complaints
• Higher courts, district courts and local courts, with separate labour and administrative courts

A law degree, a traineeship, and the state legal exam, then admission to the Slovenian Bar Association.

• One state legal exam is the gateway to all the main legal professions.
• Individuals can bring a constitutional complaint after using ordinary remedies.
• Private law follows the Austrian tradition from Habsburg times.

Austria, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Serbia

The University of Ottawa’s JuriGlobe database lists Slovenia 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.

• Constitutional Court of Slovenia (English pages)

Sources last reviewed: October 2026.