RISTAU’S INTERNATIONAL JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE: A PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE TO INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL LITIGATION by David P. Stewart and David W. Bowker (Oxford U. Press and the International Law Institute, 2d ed. 2021)

This book gives insightful and comprehensive information on cross-border litigation by discussing issues in sequence as they are likely to be encountered in practice. The book is an updated, reimagined edition of the multi-volume set, International Justice Assistance written by its late author, Bruno Ristau, who was formerly chief of the Foreign Litigation Section in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division when the first edition was published in 1984.