*This is the eleventh and final post in a symposium on Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand’s “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy.” For other posts in the series, click here. Writing a book review, especially when that book weighs in at 1,200 pages, is an act of generosity. We are so […]

*This is the tenth post in a symposium on Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand’s “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy.” For other posts in the series, click here. The arrival of the first new casebook on regulated industries—what its authors call “Network, Platform, and Utility” (NPU) law—in a quarter century is […]

*This is the ninth post in a symposium on Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand’s “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy.” For other posts in the series, click here. One of the things that constituted the neoliberal era in law schools was a mainstreaming of a very particular view about markets. Markets […]

*This is the eighth post in a symposium on Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand’s “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy.” For other posts in the series, click here. Writing a law textbook is a huge task. Writing a textbook that takes a panoramic view of multiple substantive issues and areas of […]

*This is the seventh post in a symposium on Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand’s “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy.” For other posts in the series, click here. Networks, Platforms and Utilities (NPU) is an ambitious book.It covers an enormous range of industries and regulatory frameworks—everything from banking to the postal […]

*This is the sixth post in a symposium on Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand’s “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy.” For other posts in the series, click here. When I went to law school, after having spent years studying the political economy of particular industries (energy, forest products, chicken processing, agricultural […]

*This is the fifth post in a symposium on Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand’s “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy.” For other posts in the series, click here. The new casebook by Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton and Lev Menand on the law and policy of networks, platforms, and utilities […]

*This is the fourth post in a symposium on Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand’s “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy.” For other posts in the series, click here. “We encourage you to think of it as offering something like a liberal arts education in the structural foundations of American capitalism.” (p. […]

*This is the third post in a symposium on Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand’s “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy.” For other posts in the series, click here. In the preface to the 1994 edition of Economic Regulation: Cases and Materials (a precursor to Networks, Platforms, and Utilities (NPU) Law & […]

*This is the second post in a symposium on Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand’s “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy.” For other posts in the series, click here. Networks, Platforms, and Utilities is the casebook I wish I’d written. It’s also the casebook I wish I’d had available for the past […]

*This is the first post in a symposium on Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand’s “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy.” For other posts in the series, click here. One of my prized possessions is an unsolicited letter I received after publishing my very first academic article in August 1993. The article, […]

*This is the introduction to a symposium on Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand’s “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy.” For other posts in the series, click here. We are grateful to the Yale Journal on Regulation for hosting this symposium on our new law school casebook, Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law […]