Download or read book Law's Machinery written by Kellen R. Funk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2025 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.