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Antitrust Chronicle® – Essential Facilities

Antitrust Chronicle® – Essential Facilities

Spring 2023, April, Volume 1

Dear Readers, The essential facilities doctrine provides a generally recognized basis for imposing antitrust liability for unilateral refusals to deal. Classically, it has been claimed that a monopolist that denies a competitor access to an input considered an “essential facility” violates section 2 of the U.S. Sherman Act or Article 102 TFEU (and its national […]

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Antitrust Chronicle® – Essential Facilities
CPI
Apr 12, 2023
Essential Facilities and the Zombie Apocalypse
John Taladay
Apr 12, 2023
Essential Facilities and the Law of the Hammer
Thomas B. Nachbar
Apr 12, 2023
Dispelling Myths: The Essential Facilities Doctrine in the Digital Economy
Nikolas Guggenberger
Apr 12, 2023
Trinko Meets Microsoft: Leverage and Foreclosure in Platform Refusals to Deal
Erik Hovenkamp
Apr 12, 2023
The Essential Facilities Doctrine: From Locomotives to Search Engines
Stephen M. Maurer
Apr 12, 2023
Portability, not Doctrine, is Key to Unlock User Agency for Data
Chris Riley
Apr 12, 2023
Revival of the Essential Facility Doctrine is not Essential; Joint Agency Guidelines will Better Strengthen Monopolization Law
Bilal Sayyed
Apr 12, 2023

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