This authoritative legal guide, written by a distinguished group of specialists, presents analyses of legal systems, practices, and practitioners of all the major countries and regions of the world. Adopting a systematic, comparative approach, the volume illuminates the linkages between the nature of legal arrangements with the nature of particular societies.

ALAN N. KATZ, Professor of Politics at Fairfield University, has lectured extensively on comparative legal systems and has been an Affiliated Scholar of the American Bar Foundation since 1974.