With the growing number of economies opening up to the world in the last few decades, it has become increasingly common for lawyers to be engaged in transactions involving elements from more than one country. No matter how complex a deal may be, the crux of the matter at the end of the day is whether the rights of the parties can be satisfactorily enforced. For cross-border commercial disputes, this question often depends on the forum in which they are resolved than on the substantive law governing the transactions. It is therefore essential for lawyers to have a good grasp of the issues involved in international commercial litigation in order to appropriately advise their clients of the legal risks involved in their transnational transactions. However, it is difficult to find in the market a readable and erudite book on a subject largely governed by procedural rules and commercial considerations. Nonetheless, Richard Fentiman has shown that it is possible to produce a scholarly work which is not only of a high quality, but at the same time palatable to practitioners.