Tajikistan
Civil law
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Tajikistan is a civil-law country whose law comes from the Soviet period and has been rewritten since independence, with a Constitution of 1994. It has a Constitutional Court, a Supreme Court and courts for commercial disputes.
Updated October 2026. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.
Where the law comes from
- The Constitution of 1994, as amended, the highest law
- Codes and statutes, such as the Civil Code and the Criminal Code
- Decisions of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court, which guide the lower courts
The main courts
- The Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court
- Specialised economic courts for commercial disputes
- Regional, city and district courts
Becoming a lawyer
A law degree and a licence from the Ministry of Justice, then membership of a bar association.
What may surprise you
- Islamic law does not form a source of state law, though most people are Muslim.
- Business disputes are handled by specialised economic courts.
- The region of Gorno-Badakhshan has special autonomous status within the Constitution.
Related systems
How this country is classified
The University of Ottawa’s JuriGlobe database lists Tajikistan 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.
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Sources
Sources last reviewed: October 2026.
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