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The article explores how arbitral rules in an unsophisticated arbitration agreement invalidates an employee's clear and unmistakable manifestation of intent to arbitrate questions of arbitrability. Topics discussed include role of delegation clauses in the agreement of parties to arbitrate questions of arbitrability, contract of adhesion theory, doctrine of unconscionability and principles of incorporation by reference, and rebuttable presumption of unsophistication for certain contracts.

The article examines the provisions of commercial general liability (CGL) insurance policies, particularly those concerning assault and battery exclusions. Other topics include the expected or intended injury exclusion in standard CGL policies, the conditions where assault and battery can be considered as accidental, and the policies' intentional acts exclusion.

The article focuses on the final draft of the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance that was approved in May 2018. Topics covered include the Restatement's virtual silence on the concept of intent, its omission of the competing judicial interpretations of the term "accident," and the definition of fortuity in the liability insurance context.

When an individual dies with only a surviving spouse and a surviving parent, the majority of intestacy statutes give the bulk of the decedent's property to the spouse and only a small portion to the parent. When an individual dies with only a surviving parent and a surviving sibling, the majority of intestacy statutes give all of the decedent's property to the parent and nothing to the sibling. The author argues that these property distribution schemes do not accurately reflect intestate intent. The author outlines steps that statute drafters should take to revise intestacy statutes so they effectuate intestate intent with regard to these two property distribution schemes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses several legal developments involving Internet domain names in the U.S. as of November 2012, focusing on various cases brought under America's Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act on topics such as the bad intent to profit, domain name registrar liability, and the re-registration of a domain name. The unauthorized use of a personal name and the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy are examined in a legal case involving actress Nicole Richie.