Uzbekistan
Civil law
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Uzbekistan is a civil-law country whose law comes from the Soviet period and has been renewed since independence. It has a Constitution of 1992, a Constitutional Court, and a separate system of economic courts for business disputes.
Updated October 2026. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.
Where the law comes from
- The Constitution of 1992, as amended, the highest law
- Codes and statutes, such as the Civil Code (1996) and the Criminal Code
- Decrees of the President and decisions of the Constitutional Court
The main courts
- The Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court
- Economic courts, a separate system for commercial and some administrative disputes
- Regional, city and district courts
Becoming a lawyer
A law degree and a licence, then membership of the Chamber of Advocates.
What may surprise you
- Karakalpakstan is an autonomous republic with its own constitution inside Uzbekistan.
- It has a separate system of economic courts, a feature of the Soviet and post-Soviet region.
- Its Civil Code of 1996 was drafted with Russian, German and other models in view.
Related systems
How this country is classified
The University of Ottawa’s JuriGlobe database lists Uzbekistan 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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