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

Ganesh Sitaraman holds the New York Alumni Chancellor's Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University and is Director of the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator. He is the author or co-author of six books, including Why Flying is Miserable (2023), Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy (2022). He has been profiled in The New York Times and Politico for his work at the nexus of politics and ideas. Morgan Ricks holds the Herman O. Loewenstein Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of The Money Problem: Rethinking Financial Regulation (2016) and a co-author of Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy (2022). He was a senior policy advisor and financial restructuring expert at the US Treasury Department from 2009 to 2010. Ewan McGaughey is a Professor of Law at King's College, London. He is the author of Principles of Enterprise Law (2022) and A Casebook on Labour Law (2019). He is also a research associate at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, and a visiting professor at the Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics.

• 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.