Pennsylvania Public Service Law

Of Pennsylvania Law Review Cases on Future

This volume is published in continuation of the Continental Legal History Series translated and edited under the auspices of the Association of American Law Schools. The book opens with a preliminary study of the formative principles of civil procedure by the editor reprinted from the Illinois Law Review, here called a Prolegomena, a learned and philosophic study of comparative procedure withou...

The Law of Third Party Beneficiaries in Pennsylvania

Repeal of the Pennsylvania motorcycle helmet law: reflections on the ethical and political dynamics of public health reform

BACKGROUND In June of 2003 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania passed S. 259 which repealed the state's 35-year old motorcycle helmet safety law. Motorcycle helmets are now only required for riders who are under the age of 21 and for those who are 21 years or older who have had a motorcycle operator's license for less than two years, or who have not completed an approved motorcycle safety course. ...

An Independent Public Law

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In 1952, Jerome Hall gave a series of lectures on “Police and Law in a Democratic Society.” Applying the methodology of cultural history, this Essay traces how Hall’s concept of democratic policing shifted from self-rule, to the rule of law, and finally to due process as he struggled to account for twentieth-century police forces that were not, in important ways, governed by the people or const...