The Law and the Dead

This book focuses on the substantive laws around disposal of the recently deceased and associated issues around their post-mortem fate. The book looks primarily at the laws and related policy issues in England and Wales but also offers a comparative approach, drawing heavily on material from other comparable common law jurisdictions including Au

Dr Heather Conway is a Senior Lecturer in Law in Queen's University Belfast. Heather's main teaching and research interests lie in the areas of property and land law, especially comparative Commonwealth property law. She has written a number of articles on aspects of co-ownership and has published a leading monograph in this area- Co-Ownership of Land: Partition Actions and Remedies (2nd edition, 2012).

Introduction 1. Death and Its Immediate Aftermath 2. Bodily Disposal Laws 3.Disposal of the Dead: Legal Rights and Responsibilities 4. Resolving Funeral Disputes 5. Funeral Instructions: The Case for Ante-Mortem Planning 6. Utilising Parts of the Dead: Organ Donation and Posthumous Reproduction 7. Exhuming the Dead 8. Memorialising the Dead 9. The Law and the Dead: Time for a Re-Evaluation?