Slovakia

• The Constitution of 1992, the highest law
• Codes and statutes, such as the Civil Code and the Commercial Code
• European Union law, which takes priority in its area
• Decisions of the Supreme Court, which guide lower courts

• The Supreme Court for civil, commercial and criminal cases
• The Constitutional Court, which reviews laws and hears individual constitutional complaints
• Regional courts and district courts

A master's degree in law, a traineeship of about three years with a lawyer, and the bar exam, followed by registration with the Slovak Bar Association.

• The Constitutional Court sits in Košice, in the east of the country.
• Individuals can bring a constitutional complaint after using ordinary remedies.
• Slovakia and Czechia shared a legal system until 1993 and still have very similar law.
• Much of the private law follows Central European civil-law tradition.

Czechia, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Germany

The University of Ottawa’s JuriGlobe database lists Slovakia 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 Slovakia
• Supreme Court of Slovakia

Sources last reviewed: October 2026.