Administrative Justice in Italy

Italian law is based on Roman law, particularly its civil law, and on French Napoleonic law (itself based on the Roman model).
The codes of the Kingdom of Sardinia in civil and penal affairs were extended to the whole of Italy when Italy was unified in the mid-19th century. The revised 1990 penal code replaced the old ‘inquisitory’ system with an accusatory system similar to that of common-law countries.