The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death

Author: Marc Trabsky; Imogen Jones
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032303383
Published In: October 2024
Format: Hardback
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The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary scholarship on the intersections of law and death in the twenty-first century.

It showcases how socio-legal scholars have contributed to the critical turn in death studies and how the sociology of death has impacted upon the discipline of law. In bringing together prominent academics and emerging experts from a diverse range of disciplines, the handbook shows how far from shunning questions of mortality, legal institutions incessantly talk about death. Touching upon the epistemologies and materialities of death, and problems of contested deaths and posthumous harms, the handbook questions what is distinctive about the disciplinary alignment of law and death, how law regulates and manages death in the everyday, and how thinking with law can enrich our understandings of the presence of death in our lives.

In a time when the world is facing global inequalities in living and dying, and legal institutions are increasingly interrogating their relationships to death, this handbook makes for essential reading for scholars, students and practitioners in law, humanities and the social sciences.

Law and Death: Mapping the Terrain

Marc Trabsky and Imogen Jones

Part 1: Epistemologies of Death

1. Cryptic Comments

Desmond Manderson

2. Beyond Denial: A Sociological Investigation of the Normative Order of Death

Zohreh BayatRizi

3. Another Law of the Dead? Legal Personhood, Death and Time in Anglo-Saxon Jurisprudence

James Martel

4. Deaths in the Mud: Law and Grievable Lives in Minas Gerais

Maria Fernanda Salcedo Repolês and Edward Kirton-Darling

5. Colonial Law as Nomocide

Maria Giannacopoulos

6. Thanatopolitics of Law

Marc Trabsky

Part 2: Materialities of Death

7. Humic Lawscapes

Joshua DM Shaw

8. The Grave as a Contested Space

Kate Falconer

9. The Role and Repercussions of Law in Contested Funerals and Contested Memorials

Heather Conway

10. Caring for the Dead: The Role of Anatomical Pathology Technologists in Medico-legal Autopsies

Imogen Jones

11. Sublime Executions and Material Affections: Law, Aesthetics, and the Death Penalty

Sabrina Gilani

Part 3: Contested Deaths

12. Coronial Investigations: Past Deaths and Future Lives

Jessica Jacobson, Alexandra Murray, Hannah Rumble and Lorna Templeton

13. Feedback Loops, Vulnerable Populations and the Coronial Determination of Suicide

Belinda Carpenter, Ella Tait and Claire Ferguson

14. Account-giving and the Justification of Racial Violence in Inquests of Black People Killed by Police

Carson Cole Arthur

15. Contested Death and the Coronial Jurisdiction

Rebecca Scott Bray

16. Contested Deaths and the Public Inquiry in Healthcare: Where the Norm Becomes the Exception

Hamish Robertson, David J Carter and Joanne Travaglia

17. The Right to Life and Learning Lessons from Death

Stuart Wallace

Part 4: Posthumous Harms

18. Ambivalent Parallels in Registration and Certification of (Live) Birth, Stillbirth and Miscarriage

Karolina Kuberska and Sheelagh McGuinness

19. Posthumous Photographic Images

Remigius N Nwabueze

20. When Birth and Death Collide: Maternal Infanticide and the Illusive Born Alive Rule

Emma Milne

21. Corporate Homicide

Penny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk

22. Killing as an Operation of the Civil Law: Two Examples of Roman Jurisprudence

Edward Mussawir

23. Death and the Challenges of Distant Affectivity: Liminal Narratives at the International Criminal Court

Caroline Fournet and Adina-Loredana Nistor

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