The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania: Life and Law in the Commonwealth, 1684-2017

Established in 1684, over a century before the Commonwealth, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court is the oldest appellate court in North America. This balanced, comprehensive history of the Court examines over three centuries of legal proceedings and cases before the body, the controversies and conflicts with which it dealt, and the impact of its decisions and of the case law its justices created

Introduced by constitutional scholar Ken Gormley, this volume describes the Supreme Court’s structure an...