Kellen R Funk

Law's Machinery

Reforming the Craft of Lawyering in America's Industrial Age

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Produktbeschreibung

Often overlooked by histories of the world's famous code systems, mid-nineteenth century America settled on a code of practice that elevated lawyers as the dominant force of the country's legal institutions. Law's Machinery draws on innovative methods in digital legal history and offers a sweeping intellectual, cultural, and political account of the modernization of American legal practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780197543931
• ISBN-10: 0197543936
• Artikelnr.: 72653530

Autorenporträt

Kellen R. Funk is Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches courses on civil procedure and American Legal History. He has authored pathbreaking works on the use of digital methods in legal history and is now at work on a history of the American bail system. He lives with his family in Princeton, New Jersey.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I. The Machine
1: Sampson Against the Philistines: The Allure of an American Code
2: The Rule of Writs: Civil Justice Before the Code
3: Mere Machinery: The Political Shape of Civil Procedure
4: An Empire in Itself: The Migration of Field's Code
5: The Code American: The Institutes of Code Practice
II. The Garden
6: No Magic in Forms: Fact Pleading and the Forms of Action
7: The Swearer's Prayer: Oathtaking and Witness Testimony
8: The Want of Information: Discovery Before Trial
9: The Nature of Things: Law and Equity
10: How Shall the Lawyers Be Paid? Fees and Costs
Conclusion