Life and Death in Private Law / edited by Kate Falconer, Kit Barker, and Andrew Fell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barker, Kit, editor.

Falconer, Kate, editor.

Fell, Andrew, editor.

Series:

Hart Studies in Private Law.

Hart Studies in Private Law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Hart Publishing, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Private law regulates life; this is self-evident, but how does it regulate death? This edited collection explores this question. Life and death are the beginning and end of the legal person: the instigator and terminator of rights, interests and obligations. They are also the nominal separator of particular fields of law (medical law from succession law, for example). As such they act as fault lines that can test the limit of private law principles and norms. This book explores what life and death tell us about private law and what private law can tell us about the meaning and value of life and death.

Contents:

Foreword Acknowledgements Contributors Table of Cases Table of Legislation Table of Statutory Instruments 1. Life and Death in Private Law, Andrew Fell and Kate Falconer 2. How Private Law Regulates Intimacy and Relationships at the Edges of Life, Jonathan Herring 3. The Margins of Private Law: SB-8 and the Private Enforcement of Abortion Law, Jesse Wall 4. Deceit and the Creation of Life, Anna Broadmore 5. Human Existence as Actionable Damage?, Stephen Todd 6. The Rights of the Dead, Andrew Fell 7. With this Ring I Thee Slay: The Death of Coverture, Danaya Wright 8. Suicide, Madness, and the State: The Tale from Tort, Kit Barker 9. Death Can be Fatal! The End of Empire and Survival of Actions Legislation in Queensland and New South Wales, Mark Lunney 10. Dealing with the Dead and Familial Discord: Contested Funerals and the Challenges for Private Law, Heather Conway 11. Cultural Negotiation of Inheritance Law in Australia, Prue Vines 12. Burial Disputes and the Work of the Dead, Kate Falconer

ISBN:

9781509969357

1509969357

9781509969333

1509969330

9781509969340

1509969349

OCLC:

1463066415