Weber began his career as a lawyer, and is regarded as one of the founders of sociology and sociology of law. Richard Posner, University of Chicago Law School professor and the most cited legal scholar, until 2014 ran a blog with Nobel Prize winning economist Gary Becker. Consumer law could include anything from regulations on unfair contractual terms and clauses to directives on airline baggage insurance. Competition law, known in the United States as antitrust law, is an evolving field that traces as far back as Roman decrees against price fixing and the English restraint of trade doctrine. Modern competition law derives from the U.S. anti-cartel and anti-monopoly statutes of the turn of the 20th century.
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