The Yale Law Journal

Charles S. Dameron

Note

Present at Antitrust’s Creation: Consumer Welfare in the Sherman Act’s State Statutory Forerunners

Charles S. Dameron

For the last four decades, federal courts have construed the Sherman Act as a consumer-welfare statute. But considerable disagreement persists within the legal academy regarding the true legislative aims of American antitrust law. This Note argues that interpreters of the Sherman…