The encyclopedia includes about 2300 articles covering all branches of modern Russian law and legislation, the theory of state and law, the history of the state, law and legal teachings. For lawyers researchers, practitioners, students, graduate students and teachers of law universities . The articles of the "Legal Encyclopedia" first of all reveal a new image of the state and law in Russia. But this book is not only about Russia .. Today, when the development of the Russian state and law is in a single stream of global development, it is especially important to acquaint the reader with the foreign state and law, with the world trends in the development of these phenomena. Only against this background, it is possible to give fairly complete scientifically based information about ideas, concepts, categories and specific phenomena within the field of jurisprudence. After much deliberation, the author’s team and the publishing house came to the conclusion that it was expedient to publish this encyclopedia in one volume.