1. Civil law (Romano-Germanic) family — the Roman-law descendants: France, Germany, the Latin world, the codes of Asia and Latin America (Unit 3) — the world's largest family by jurisdiction-count;
2. Common law family — England and the Anglophone world (Unit 2);
3. Socialist law — the Soviet-type systems; modern China's hybrid (Units 4 and 7);
4. Religious legal systems — Islamic law's jurisdictions; Hindu law's personal-law regimes (Unit 5);
5. Confucian/Far Eastern traditions — China's imperial heritage, Japan's modern synthesis (Unit 7);
6. Mixed systems (Scotland, South Africa, Quebec, Louisiana, the Philippines, Israel — and in its own way Nepal: the codified Ain tradition (civil-law style) + the common-law procedure and precedent culture (transplanted via India and the Anglophone era) + the Hindu-law substrate of family law + the customary-ethnic laws — the mixed-system analysis Nepal deserves and rarely receives);
7. Chthonic/indigenous traditions (Glenn) — the oral customary laws: the kipat's world, the indigenous jurisprudences now constitutionally recognized (the pluralist turn).