Discrimination by Railroads and Other Public Utilities, by Beverly Lake (1947)

Authors

Ivan C. Rutledge, University of Washington School of Law

Abstract

Interregional conflicts, such as those involved in the reclamation program and freight rates, are producing numerous studies. One of these is a doctoral thesis on discrimination, in its invidious sense, in connection with railroad and other utility rates and services. Prefaced by a chapter summarizing with admirable clarity and conciseness the history of politico-legal justifications for governmental interference with business, the conclusion drawn by Professor Lake is that it is a function of government to intervene whenever a business by discrimination inflicts serious injury which jeopardizes the economic freedom of a large number of individuals. Economic freedom is defined as "near-equality of bargaining power," in this connection (p. 59).

First Page

84

Recommended Citation

Ivan C. Rutledge, Book Review, Discrimination by Railroads and Other Public Utilities, by Beverly Lake (1947), 23 Wash. L. Rev. & St. B.J. 84 (1948).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wlr/vol23/iss1/10