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Antitrust Oversight of an Antitrust Dispute: An Institutional Perspective on the Net Neutrality Debate

INTRODUCTION..................................................................................... 20 I. WHAT PEOPLE ARE ARGUING ABOUT WHEN THEY ARGUE ABOUT NET NEUTRALITY............................................ 22 A. A Taxonomy of IP Networks ................................................... 22 B. A Taxonomy of Net Neutrality Proposals ................................. 24 1. The Anti-Bloc...

An antitrust analysis of the case for wireless network neutrality

The ongoing debate about possible implementation of regulatory rules requiring “network neutrality” for wireless telecommunications services is inherently about whether to impose a prohibition on the ability of network operators to control their vertical relationships. Antitrust analysis is well suited to analyze whether a wireless network neutrality rule is socially beneficial. Implementing ne...

Disgorgement as an Antitrust Remedy

My topic is an antitrust remedy that is legally available, enormously powerful, but seldom used—disgorgement. I want to ask what explains the rare usage of this remedy in antitrust cases and whether the reasons for its historic backstage status continue to apply today to dominant firm misconduct. More provocatively, given the growing obstacles to private and class action damage suits and the fr...

What Can Antitrust Contribute to the Network Neutrality Debate?

Religion and Neutrality: Myth, Principle, and Meaning