Tom Baker, Kyle D. Logue and Jennifer Morinigo | May 18, 2018 | Liability Insurance
The following entry contains the complete text of the Black Letter, Comments, and Reporters’ Notes from Proposed Final Draft No. 2 of Section 6. Estoppel. § 6. Estoppel A party to an insurance policy who makes a promise or representation that can reasonably be...
Tom Baker, Kyle D. Logue and Jennifer Morinigo | May 17, 2018 | Liability Insurance
The following entry is excerpted from the Reporters’ Notes, Black Letter and Comment from Proposed Final Draft No. 2 of Section 5. Waiver. REPORTERS’ NOTE (abridged) a. The function of waiver. The general contract doctrine of waiver is discussed in Restatement Second,...
George A. Bermann, Jack J. Coe Jr., Christopher R. Drahozal, Catherine A. Rogers and Pauline Toboulidis | May 16, 2018 | International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration
This is the second post presenting Sections from the 2018 International Commercial and Investment Arbitration Annual Meeting draft that deals with the roles that courts might play during the pendency of international arbitral proceedings. The previous post presented...
George A. Bermann, Jack J. Coe Jr., Christopher R. Drahozal and Catherine A. Rogers | May 11, 2018 | International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration
On May 21, ALI membership will be presented with Tentative Draft No. 6 of the Restatement of the Law, The U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investment Arbitration. This draft includes Chapter 3, which addresses the roles that courts might play during the...
Ward Farnsworth and Pauline Toboulidis | May 9, 2018 | Torts: Economic Harm
When is it a tort to interfere with somebody else’s contract? In this video, project Reporter Ward Farnsworth discusses the development of the tort of interference with economic interests since the Restatement Second of Torts. Included below the video is the...