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The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of Networks, Platforms and Utilities

Edited by Ganesh Sitaraman · Ewan McGaughey · Morgan Ricks
Coming Soon Cambridge University Press Available November 2026

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ISBN-13
9781009775670
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
November 2026
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of Networks, Platforms and Utilities offers a comparative and multi-sector analysis of the most important industries shaping people's lives, including transportation, communications, finance, energy, technology, and social infrastructure. Enterprises in these sectors are unlike other businesses because they form the basic infrastructure for commerce and society. Network, platform, and utility (NPU) enterprises tend toward monopoly or oligopoly, and often involve structurally unequal bargaining power because of economies of scale, network effects, special skills, and high capital costs. As a result, NPU enterprises around the world have generally been governed by distinctive legal regimes: public ownership, public utility regulation and oversight, or public options alongside private businesses.

The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of Networks, Platforms and Utilities brings together leading scholars to capture the central themes and concepts in the field and describe how countries around the world govern NPU enterprises.

Table of Contents

Part I. NPUs (General):
1. An Overview of NPU Law
Ganesh Sitaraman, Morgan Ricks, Shelley Whelton and Lev Menand
2. Is public ownership or privatisation better? Law, economic theories, and how data helps
Ewan McGaughey
3. Antitrust and NPU Law
Elettra Bietti
4. Human Rights and Networks, Platforms and Utilities: Positive Rights Connections
Katie Young
5. A Regulatory Governance Perspective on African and South African Networks, Platforms, and Utilities
Jonathan Klaaren
6. Deploying Networks, Platforms, and Utilities for Rural Resilience
Ann Eisenberg
7. Prices, Ways of Price Making, and the Public Interest in NPU Law
William Boyd

Part II. Railroads:
8. The regulation of rail passenger transport in EU law: a search for a delicate balance between opening up to competition and securing public service obligations at the Member States level
Stéphane de la Rosa
9. Regulation, Competition, and Cooperation in the Japanese Rail Industry
Fumitoshi Mizutani
10. Regulation of Indian Railways
Rachna Gangwar and G. Raghuram
11. From the Progressive Era to Precision Scheduled Railroads: US Railroad Regulation Today
Matt Buck
12. Railway Regulation with Chinese Characteristics
Linda Tjia Yin-Nor

Part III. Airlines:
13. Network Structure and Market Power in the Australian Airline Industry
John Quiggin
14. Air Transport in Europe: 40 Years of Liberalization and Re-regulation
Steven Truxal
15. Impact of De-regulation on Customer Service and Convenience: A Case Study of the Indian Airline Industry
Rajiv Nagpal and Haritha Saranga
16. Rethinking Airline Deregulation in the United States
Phillip Longman

Part IV. Electricity:
17.Regulating a Sustainable Power Sector: Insights from the European Market Design
Ewa Lazarczyk and Chloe le Coq
18. Playing with Power: The Power Sector Reform in China
Yi-chong Xu
19. Deconstructing the centre-state dynamic: governance and regulation in India's electricity sector
Anupama Sen
20. The Quest for Public Utility: Electricity Regulation in the United States
Shelley Whelton

Part V. Banking and Finance:
21. Canadian Banks as Public Utilities
Dan Rohde
22. Nigeria's Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act 2020: A Regulatory Case of Schrodinger's Cat?
Folashade Adeyemo
23. American Banking Law as a Species of Public Utility Law
Lev Manand
24. Securities Market Infrastructure in the US
Morgan Ricks
25. What the Banks (Ought to) do in China: A Review of Banking in China in the Past Two Decades
Weiping He

Part VI. Telecommunications:
26. Broadband Regulation by Subsidy
Benjamin Dinovelli and Tejas Narechania
27. The Political Economy of Canadian Telecommunications: Regulation, Competition, and Consolidation from the Nineteenth Century to the Platform Era
Dwayne Winseck
28. Of Continuities, Ruptures and Déjà vu: The Regulation of Telecommunications from 'Colonial India' to 'New India' (1854–2024)
Arun K. Thiruvengadam & Shrey Garg

Part VII. Tech Platforms:
29. EU Big Tech Platforms Laws: An Emerging Public Utilities Regulation?
Alexandre de Streel
30. Digital Public Utilities? The EU Approach for Regulating the Digital Environment
Charlotte Ducuing and Leander Stahler
31.Regulating Digital Platform Payments for News Content: The Australian Experiment
Katharine Kemp
32. Regulatory Tools for the E-commerce Industry in India
Smitha Krishna Prasad

Part VIII. Social Infrastructures
33. Childcare infrastructure in Scandinavia: Design and Contemporary Challenges
Yvette Lind
34. Healthcare Systems and Social Enterprises in Europe and the United States
Alceste Santuari and William M. Sage
35. Social infrastructure law in the UK, EU and US
Ewan McGaughey
36. Healthcare Regulation in China
Eric Ip
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