The textbook has been prepared taking into account the latest achievements of historical and legal science and in accordance with the program of the course “History of State and Law of Foreign Countries.” It consistently sets out the history of the emergence, development, and functioning of state legal systems of the ancient world, the Middle Ages, New and Contemporary times. The content of state legal processes and their inherent cause-and-effect relationships are analyzed. Among the most important, the problem of the emergence and development of human and civil rights, the rule of law, federalism, the system of separation of powers, parliamentarism, and the main institutions of law is highlighted. For students and graduate students of law and history universities and faculties.