The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death

The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary scholarship on the intersections of law and death in the 21st 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. The Open Access version of Chapter 19, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 International license.

Marc Trabsky is an Associate Professor at La Trobe University, Australia. Imogen Jones is an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom.

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