The Icelandic legal system is a civil law system based on the Danish model. Its most prevalent feature is that its core principles are codified in a referable system, which serves as the primary source of law. The Constitution of the Republic of Iceland No. 33/1944 is the highest source of law...

The Netherlands is a civil law country. Its laws are written. The role of case law is small in theory, but in practice it is impossible to understand the law in many fields without taking into account the relevant case law. The primary law-making body is formed by the Dutch Parliament in...

Macedonia (FYR), a South-East European land-locked multi-ethnic country, declared its independence in 1991, following Yugoslavia's dissolution. It has been a candidate for European Union membership since 2005, and has held a conditional invitation to join the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization...

Cyprus was granted independence in 1960 with a Constitution that set out a power-sharing system, strictly communally divided between the 'Greeks' and the 'Turks'. The Constitution recognises two 'communities', the Greeks and the Turks and three 'religious groups', the Maronites, the Armenians...

Montenegro is one of the successor states of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It remained as a joint state with Serbia after Yugoslavia's violent break-up, but in 2006 the country regained independence and is now moderately prepared candidate country for membership of the...

Latvia is a multi-ethnic country, although the proportion of the different ethnic groups among its population has varied. Ethnic origin is recorded in the population register. It is based on the ethnicity of either of a person's parents and can be changed upon reaching the age of majority by...