The hierarchy of Uzbekistan law includes: the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan, constitutional laws, codes, ordinary laws, decrees of the President, resolutions and directives of the Cabinet of Ministers, normative acts of ministries and state agencies and so on. The contemporary law of the Republic of Uzbekistan can be situated in the...

The contemporary law of the Republic Uzbekistan can be viewed as part of the Romano-Germanic legal family. It is codified and the Constitution of the Republic Uzbekistan is the most important element of the system of the sources of law. The system of state power of the Republic Uzbekistan is based on the principle of separation of powers into...

Although it is not precisely set by the legislation, in practice, the court system of the Republic of Uzbekistan is divided into the following two main categories, which are:
- government courts;
- non-government courts...

Decisions of ministries, state committees and other government authorities are considered as binding only after they have been registered with the Ministry of Justice. Exception is made with regard to so called “technical” documents which do not have “normative character”, i.e. do not set a general “behavioral standards”. It is...

The Law on Legal Acts provides for the following general hierarchy of legal-normative documents in Uzbekistan (documents having a supreme power are presumably listed first):
1. Constitution;
2. Laws (Statutes);...

On January 1, 2007 the Law on Arbitration courts #ZRU-64 as of October 16, 2006 has come into force and introduced a new approach to the settlement of disputes in the Republic of Uzbekistan. If previously the system of judicial dispute resolution has included economic, civil, administrative, criminal and military courts, commencing January 1,...