Summer 2026
The Network Law Review publishes four issues a year. Articles go online one by one and are gathered by season. This issue closed with 7 publications.
Contents
Newest first14 September 2026
Keeper Acquisitions: What Big Tech Keeps When It Buys
The “killer acquisition” hypothesis dominates debate on technology mergers, asking whether large firms buy startups to eliminate them. But the more revealing question is what acquirers keep.
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9 September 2026
Dominance in Motion: A practical R&D-intensity test for dynamic markets
In innovation-driven markets, a market share records who is ahead; it does not reveal how hard that firm must work to remain ahead. A dominance assessment should therefore examine the incumbent’s innovation effort and the innovative capabilities of its challengers before treating persistent…
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8 September 2026
Introducing The Minerva Papers
Why this title? Among the gods of antiquity, Minerva has suffered a peculiar fate. Mars still lends his name to war, Venus to beauty and desire, Mercury to speed and commerce. Minerva, by contrast, has faded from our collective imagination.
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26 August 2026
The Law and Economics of Superior Bargaining Power
The abuse of economic dependence has attracted renewed attention, largely as a result of the growing policy focus on fairness in digital markets. Rules originally designed to address bargaining-power imbalances in traditional commercial relationships are increasingly being recast as instruments of…
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15 July 2026
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Assessing the Draft EU Merger Guidelines
This paper assesses the European Commission’s draft Merger Guidelines against the treatment of efficiencies, the failing firm defence, and the counterfactual in the 2004 Horizontal Merger Guidelines and the 2008 Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines.
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8 July 2026
A Farewell to Net Neutrality: Implications for Internet Access and E-Commerce
I consider legal decisions resulting in the end of the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality regulation. There is evidence that net neutrality regulation has diminished incentives to invest in internet access and increased transaction costs in the market for access.
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25 June 2026
Antitrust Antidote: April-June 2026
Jeremy Kauffman, Jeremy Sandford, Nathan Wilson and Koren W. Wong-Ervin
There were a number of significant decisions from April through June 2026, including: (1) the Eastern District of California’s preliminary injunction in In re Nexstar-Tegna Merger Litigation, requiring hold-separate relief notwithstanding prior DOJ and FCC approval of the acquisition and raising…
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