Constitutional Court

This article is a list of constitutional courts. For information about constitutional courts in general, see Constitution

A Constitutional Court is a high court found in many countries which deals primary with constitutional law. Its main authority is to rule on whether or not challenged laws are in fact unconstitutional, and conflicting with constitutionally established rights and freedoms. Many countries do not have separate constitutional courts, and instead delegate constitutional judicial authority to the Supreme Court.

Countries with constitutional courts include:

• Albania
• Armenia
• Austria, the country which first used this model (see Constitution of Austria)
• Azerbaijan
• Belarus
• Belgium, (see Court of Arbitration of Belgium)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bulgaria
• Central African Republic
• Chile
• Croatia, (see Croatian Constitutional Court)
• Czech Republic
• Egypt, (see Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt
• France
• Georgia
• Germany, (see Federal Constitutional Court of Germany)
• Guatemala
• Hungary
• Italy
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• F.Y.R. Macedonia
• Madagascar
• Moldova
• Mongolia
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Russia
• Serbia and Montenegro
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• South Africa - Constitutional Court of South Africa
• South Korea
• Spain
• Tajikistan
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• Uzbekistan