Comment on the merits and prospects of electric utilities deregulation in the United States, with reference to similar action in Australia and the United Kingdom. Article by Mr Edward L. Flippen (a partner with McGuire Woods LLP and a visiting professor of law at George Mason University School of Law). Published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.