Law of Serbia


The Law of Serbia is the system of legal rules in force in Serbia, and in the international community it is a member of. Serbian legal system belongs mainly to the Germanic branch of continental legal culture. Major areas of public and private law are divided into branches, among them civil, criminal, administrative, family and labour law.
Serbia is the fourth modern-day European country, after France, Austria, and the Netherlands, to have a codified legal system.
Written law is the basis of the legal order, and the most important source of law are: Constitution of Serbia, legal regulations, international treaties, and such findings of the Constitutional Court, in which a law or its part has been nullified as unconstitutional.