Legal Systems of the World: A Political and Social Encyclopedia From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, This exhaustive four volumes set explores the structures, operation and history of legal and judicial systems in every country on earth. every state in the union and every province in canada. Behind this powerhouse of a set is an international team of over 350 legal scholars, contributing nearly 400 A-Z entries in everyday language. Readers and legal scholars alike will come to understand these systems, their key elements, their core concepts and their practices. This monumental work includes:

Judicial systems of every modern century.

Judicial systems of all 50 U. S. States and all Canadian provinces.

Transnational system such as the World Trade Organization and the African Commision on Human and People's Rights.

General Legal Systems from Islamic and Roman law to the Soviet system.

Alternative Systems like international arbitration and Jewish Law.