Dead body: Law

Gallagher, S. 2010

‘Raising the dead: exhumation and the faculty jurisdiction: should we presume to exhume?’ Web Journal of Current Legal Issues.

Jennings, B. & Hammack-Aviran 2021

‘A covenant among generations: keeping trust in the republic and the law’, in K. Rothsteain & C. Staudt (eds) The Future of the Corpse: Changing Ecologies of Death and Disposition, 198-225.

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Marsh, T. 2016

The Law of Human Remains, Tucson AZ: Lawyers & Judges Publishing Co.

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McBain, G. 2014

‘Modernising the law on the unlawful treatment of dead bodies’, Journal of Politics and Law, 7:3, 89-99.

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McEvoy, K. & Conway, H. 2004

‘The dead, the law and the politics of the past’, Journal of Law and Society, 31:4, 539-62.

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Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract