Forensic imaging technology has rapidly advanced over the past several decades and is
gaining increasing significance in medico-legal death investigations. Medical-grade …

Many civilisations and religions regard death as a transitional period, bridging one stage of
life with another. Protecting the dead and thus ensuring that human remains are respected is …

The fate of the dead is a compelling and emotive subject, which also raises increasingly
complex legal questions. This book focuses on the substantive laws around disposal of the …

Objectives The purpose of the study was to examine the loss and grief experiences of
patients waiting for and living with new hearts. Background There is much scholarship on …

Abstract In February 2015, two Anishinaabe tribal members, Mushkoob Aubid and Autumn
Martineau, passed away after car accidents in Northeastern Minnesota. Their bodies were …

The book explores the relationship between Muslims, the Common Law and Sharīʽah post-
9/11. The book looks at the accommodation of Sharīʽah Law within Western Common Law …

According to the mission statement for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),
it is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian …

When a death is investigated by a coroner, what is the place of the family in that process?
This accessibly written book draws together empirical, theoretical and historical perspectives …

This article reports the findings of two studies of the Aotearoa coronial service that sought to
understand how coronial processes engage with whānau who have lost a rangatahi to …

Taking Australia as its example, this chapter argues that Southern death investigation
exhibits a unique constellation of features developed in response to law on the frontier, and …