This textbook is the result of many years of teaching activity of the author at the leading universities of the country - MGIMO (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation), State University - Higher School of Economics, RAGS under the President of the Russian Federation - and is a textbook of a new generation. The highest professional level of the author, a bright, easy style of presentation of the material, Numerous illustrations made by a professional artist make the process of studying the discipline extremely exciting and a wonderful start to the world of jurisprudence. The textbook fully complies with the State educational standard of higher professional education. Students, graduate students, teachers of law universities and faculties.