Georgia

• The Constitution of 1995, the highest law
• Codes and statutes, such as the Civil Code (1997) and the Criminal Code
• International treaties, including the European Convention on Human Rights
• Decisions of the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court

• The Supreme Court at the top of the ordinary courts
• The Constitutional Court, which reviews laws and hears individual complaints
• Courts of appeal and city or district courts

A law degree and a bar exam, then membership of the Georgian Bar Association.

• The Civil Code follows the German model, chosen after independence from the Soviet Union.
• The Constitutional Court is in Batumi, not in the capital, Tbilisi.
• Georgia has used juries for serious crimes since 2010, which is unusual for a civil-law country.

Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Turkey

The University of Ottawa’s JuriGlobe database lists Georgia 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 Georgia (English pages)
• Supreme Court of Georgia (English pages)

Sources last reviewed: October 2026.