Tag: Essential Facilities Doctrine

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...

At its core, the essential facilities doctrine (“EFD”) invariably involves property rights. The idea is that a party that indisputably owns rights to certain...

The essential facilities doctrine has received a resurgence of interest recently, especially with regard to platform markets. Many references to the doctrine exaggerate its...

The Essential Facilities doctrine began as an effort to balance the efficiency of asset-sharing against the need to promote competition. In practice, however, judges...

By Kalyani Singh The controversial essential facilities doctrine recently seems to have resurfaced amidst recent developments in competition law. Specifically, the doctrine has found itself...