Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...

Asia Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which ...

refers to the legal systems of Asian countries.

Countries

* Law of Afghanistan *

Law of Armenia Armenian law (), that being the modern Legal system of Armenia (), is a system of law acted in Armenia. History of law in Armenia The modern legal system of Armenia was founded on 21 September 1991 following the 1991 Armenian independence ref ...

* Law of Azerbaijan * Law of Bahrain *

Law of Bangladesh Bangladesh is a common law country, with its legal system inherited from the British during their colonial rule over British India. The region now known as Bangladesh was referred to as Bengal during both the British and Mughal periods, and by ot ...

* Law of Bhutan * Law of Brunei * Law of Cambodia *

Law of China Chinese law is one of the oldest legal traditions in the world. The core of modern Chinese law is based on Germanic-style civil law, socialist law, and traditional Chinese approaches. For most of the history of China, its legal system has ...

Law of the People's Republic of China The Law of the People's Republic of China, officially referred to as the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, is the legal regime of China, with the separate legal traditions and systems of mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau. C ...

Law of Hong Kong The law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has its foundation in the English common law system, inherited from being a former British colony and dependent territory. There are several sources of law, the primary ones being statute ...

Law of Macau Macau law is broadly based on Portuguese law, and therefore part of the civil law tradition of continental European legal systems. Portuguese law is itself highly influenced by German law. However, many other influences are present, including ...

Law of the Republic of China Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...

(Taiwan) * Law of Cyprus * Law of Georgia *

Law of India The List of national legal systems, legal system of India consists of Civil law (common law), civil law, common law, customary law, religious law and corporate law within the legal framework inherited from the colonial era and various legis ...

Law of Indonesia Law of Indonesia is based on a civil law (legal system), civil law system, intermixed with local customary law and Law of the Netherlands, Dutch law. Before European presence and colonization began in the sixteenth century, indigenous kingdoms ...

Law of Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

Law of Iraq The Iraq's legal system is in a period of transition in light of the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that led to the fall of the Ba'ath Party. Iraq does have a written constitution, which was enacted in 2005, as well as a civil, criminal and person ...

Law of Israel Israeli law is based mostly on a common law legal system, though it also reflects the diverse History of the State of Israel, history of the territory of the State of Israel throughout the last hundred years (which was at various times prior t ...

* Law of the Palestinian territories *

Law of Japan The law of Japan refers to the legal system in Japan, which is primarily based on legal codes and statutes, with precedents also playing an important role. Japan has a civil law legal system with six legal codes, which were greatly influenced b ...

* Law of Jordan * Law of Kazakhstan *

Law of North Korea The law of North Korea (officially called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) is a codified civil law system inherited from the Japanese and influenced by the Soviet Union. It is governed by The Socialist Constitution and operates within t ...

Law of South Korea The legal system of South Korea is a Civil law (legal system), civil law system that has its basis in the Constitution of the Republic of Korea. The Court Organization Act, which was passed into law on 26 September 1949, officially created a three ...

* Law of Kuwait * Law of Kyrgyzstan *

Law of Laos The major source of the law of Laos is legislation; it is a civil code jurisdiction. There are 2 types of legislation: legislation of general application and legislation of specific application. History Laos inherited its civil legal system fro ...

* Law of Lebanon *

Law of Malaysia The law of Malaysia is mainly based on the common law legal system. This was a direct result of the colonisation of Malaya, Sarawak, and North Borneo by Britain between the early 19th century to the 1960s. The supreme law of the land—the ...

* Law of Maldives * Law of Mongolia *

Law of Myanmar Burmese law is based on common law, and is characterised by significant legal pluralism, with state law coexisting with various customary justice systems across the diverse nation. The legal system of Myanmar (formerly Burma) is a complex, due to ...

* Law of Nepal * Law of Oman *

Law of Pakistan The law of Pakistan is the law and legal system existing in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Pakistani law is based upon the legal system of British India; thus ultimately on the common law of England and Wales. History Following the establi ...

Law of the Philippines Law is a set of rules that are created and are law enforcement, enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a Socia ...

* Law of Qatar *

Law of Russia The primary and fundamental statement of laws in the Russian Federation is the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Statutes, like the Russian Civil Code and the Russian Criminal Code, are the predominant legal source of Russian laws. Hie ...

* Law of Saudi Arabia *

Law of Singapore The legal system of Singapore is based on the English common law system. Major areas of law – particularly administrative law in Singapore, administrative law, contract, contract law, equity (law), equity and trust law#United Kingdom, trust ...

Law of Sri Lanka The legal system in Sri Lanka comprises collections of codified and uncodified forms of law, of many origins subordinate to the Constitution of Sri Lanka which is the highest law of the island. Its legal framework is a mixture of List of national ...

* Law of Syria * Law of Tajikistan *

Law of Thailand The laws of Thailand are based on the civil law, but have been influenced by common law (see also world legal systems). Sources of law The Rattanakosin Kingdom and the four traditionally counted preceding kingdoms, collectively called Sia ...

* Law of Timor-Leste *

Law of Turkey The judicial system of Turkey is defined by Articles 138 to 160 of the Constitution of Turkey. With the founding of the Republic, Turkey adopted a Civil law (legal system), civil law legal system, replacing Ottoman law and the Sharia courts. ...

* Law of Turkmenistan * Law of United Arab Emirates * Law of Uzbekistan * Law of Vietnam * Law of Yemen

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See also