This is the third edition of this excellent casebook on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods ("CISG"). It is a very useful teaching tool, which is its main purpose. It comes, for example, with questions for the students on each article of the CISG, with 140 pages of answers to these questions at the end of the book. This casebook could also be very useful to the practitioner unfamiliar with the CISG as it provides edited cases on the CISG from many jurisdictions, some comparisons to other international instruments and to some domestic laws, and some views from the CISG Advisory Council and some doctrinal authors.

Just over twenty years ago, Singapore became a global leader in legislating for e-commerce. At that time, not only was it the case that books on Information and Communications Technology ("ICT") Law, or Internet Law, or the like, did not exist, there was also a view that books on such a niche area of law would be unhelpful. As Judge Frank Easterbrook famously contended in "Cyberspace and the Law of the Horse" (1996), a course on the 'Law of Cyberspace' would be as misconceived and unilluminating as a course on 'The Law of the Horse'. What Easterbrook said about courses on cyber law would no doubt apply in the same way to books on that subject. Yet, Easterbrook's reservations notwithstanding, courses on ICT Law have proliferated; books on ICT Law have proliferated; and, this book by Warren Chik and Saw Cheng Lim, in which the authors offer readers their expert commentary on ICT Law in Singapore, is another valuable addition to the literature of cyberlaw.

Constitutional Change in Singapore: Reforming the Elected Presidency is an excellent_x000D_ contribution to the literature on a uniquely Singaporean institution: the Elected Presidency. Established in 1991 as a means of providing an intra-institutional check upon the exercise of executive power through a democratically-elected head-of-state, the Elected Presidency is an autochthonous innovation to the traditional Westminster structure of government. A compilation of insightful and thought-provoking essays, the book will be an invaluable resource for lawyers, academics, law students, and anyone else interested in the Elected Presidency.

In Parkin v Thorold (1852) 16 Beav 59, Lord Romilly MR held that "Courts of Equity make a distinction in all cases between that which is matter of substance and that which is matter of form; and if it find that by insisting on the form, the substance will be defeated, it holds it to be inequitable to allow a person to insist on such form, and thereby defeat the substance" (at pp 66-67). The distinction between form and substance is long-standing and is familiar to both Chancery and Common Law judges. In contract law, Bingham LJ (as he then was) had warned in Interfoto Picture Library Ltd v Stiletto Visual Programmes Ltd [1989] QB 433 (CA) that a court must be alive in identifying a "disguised penalty clause" which would be unenforceable at common law (at 439). With the apparent obsession of 'substance over form', does 'form' still have a role to play in private law? The collection of essays in this volume explores the interactions and influences of both camps within the law of obligations. Broadly speaking, the essays can be sorted into three clusters.