Political, Social and Cultural Encyclopedia - from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, this exhaustive four volume set explores and structure, operation and history of legal and judicial systems in very 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 every day language.

This monumental work includes.

• Judicial systems of every modern country.
• ]Judicial systems of all 50 U.S. states and all Canadian provinces.
• Transnational system such as the World Trade Organization and the African Commission 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.