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Law's machinery : reforming the craft of lawyering in America's industrial age / Kellen R. Funk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Funk, Kellen R., author.
- Series:
- Oxford legal history series.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford legal history series
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Procedure (Law)--United States--History.
- Procedure (Law).
- Lawyers--United States--History.
- Lawyers.
- Jurisprudence--United States--Methodology.
- Jurisprudence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- It was perhaps fitting that in an age of industrialization, Americans began to think of the law as a tool, one that could be forged to fit their needs, without regard to the traditional ways of litigating cases in court. 'Law's Machinery' explores how innovators like New York attorney David Dudley Field, and his associates across the elite American bar, legislated a 'code of practice' and attempted to rebuild the practice of law from the ground up in the mid-19th century. While many of their efforts proved futile or misguided, the codifiers ultimately succeeded in turning American law into a machine run by, and in the interests of, professional lawyers like themselves. Often overlooked by histories of the world's famous code systems, the United States settled on a code of practice that elevated lawyers as the dominant force of the country's legal institutions.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 16, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9780197543962
- 0197543960
- 9780197543948
- 0197543944
- OCLC:
- 1461572736
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