Life, Death & Law


Publications

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Voluntary assisted dying is different to suicide

Michaela Okninski, Marc Trabsky and Neera Bhatia


Michaela Okninski, Marc Trabsky and Neera Bhatia, ‘Voluntary assisted dying is different to suicide. But federal laws conflate them and restrict access to telehealth’, The Conversation, 22 February 2024.

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Prescription Medicine, Adverse Effects and Economies of Death

Marc Trabsky and Jacinthe Flore


Marc Trabsky and Jacinthe Flore, ‘Prescription Medicine, Adverse Effects and Economies of Death’ in Penny Crofts (ed), Evil Corporations: Law, Culpability and Regulation (Routledge, 2024) pp 78-90.

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Forensic imaging technology helps virtual autopsies outnumber invasive post-mortem procedures

Matilda Marozzi


Matilda Marozzi, ‘Forensic imaging technology helps virtual autopsies outnumber invasive post-mortem procedures’, ABC Radio Melbourne, 3 February 2023.

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Skull on black reflective surface

Material Entanglements of the Corpse

Marc Trabsky and Jacinthe Flore


Marc Trabsky and Jacinthe Flore, ‘Material Entanglements of the Corpse’ in Jesse D Peterson, Natashe Lemos Dekker and Philip R Olson (eds), Death’s Social and Material Meaning beyond the Human (Bristol University Press, 2024) pp 156-167.

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Front cover of 'Death: New Trajectories in Law'

Death: New Trajectories in Law

Marc Trabsky


Marc Trabsky, Death: New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, 2023).

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empty hospital bed

Counting the Dead During a Pandemic

Marc Trabsky


Marc Trabsky, ‘Counting the Dead During a Pandemic’ in Carl F Stychin (ed), Law, Humanities and the COVID Crisis (University of London Press, 2023) pp 57-73.

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Public housing tower

"It is not about punishment, it’s about protection’’

Emma K Russell, Tarryn Phillips, Averyl Gaylor and Marc Trabsky


Emma K Russell, Tarryn Phillips, Averyl Gaylor and Marc Trabsky, ‘‘‘It is not about punishment, it’s about protection’: Policing ‘vulnerabilities’ and the securitisation of public health in the COVID-19 pandemic’ (2022) Criminology & Criminal Justice 1-20.

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The queen’s death certificate says she died of ‘old age’

Marc Trabsky


Marc Trabsky, ‘The queen’s death certificate says she died of ‘old age’. But what does that really mean?’, The Conversation, 30 September 2022.

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Museum roof architecture, curved stone arches.

Pour un musée des accidents juridiques

Jake Goldenfein, Laura Petersen and Marc Trabsky


Jake Goldenfein, Laura Petersen and Marc Trabsky, ‘Pour un musée des accidents juridiques’ in Accidens (Editions de l’Atelier de recherche temporelle, 2022) pp 34-47.

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Two people in yellow PPE wheeling wrapped body through street

Normalising Death in the Time of a Pandemic

Marc Trabsky


Marc Trabsky, ‘Normalising Death in the Time of a Pandemic’ (2022) 12(3) Oñati Socio-Legal Series 540-555.

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Front cover of 'Voluntary Assisted Dying’

The Neoliberal Rationality of Voluntary Assisted Dying

Marc Trabsky


Marc Trabsky, ‘The Neoliberal Rationality of Voluntary Assisted Dying’ in Daniel J Fleming and David J Carter (eds), Voluntary Assisted Dying: Law? Health? Justice? (ANU Press, 2022) pp 95-111.

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British Library digitised image from page 44 of "Poets' Wit and Humour. Selected by W. H. W. Illustrated, etc"

'Undisciplinary' podcast

Marc Trabsky, Courtney Hempton and Chris Mayes


Marc Trabsky discusses his research for 'Undisciplinary' podcast.

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Team in full PPE carrying a metal stretcher

‘Died from’ or ‘died with’ COVID-19? We need a transparent approach to counting coronavirus deaths

Marc Trabsky and Courtney Hempton


Marc Trabsky and Courtney Hempton, ‘‘Died from’ or ‘died with’ COVID-19? We need a transparent approach to counting coronavirus deaths’, The Conversation, 9 September 2020.

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Elderly couple walking together in park

Without more detail, it’s premature to say voluntary assisted dying laws in Victoria are ‘working well’

Courtney Hempton and Marc Trabsky


Courtney Hempton and Marc Trabsky, ‘Without more detail, it’s premature to say voluntary assisted dying laws in Victoria are ‘working well’’, The Conversation, 21 February 2020.

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Screenshot from 'Connected' webinar episode with Marc Trabsky

'Connected' webinar series

Marc Trabsky


Marc Trabsky discusses his research for La Trobe University's 'Connected' webinar series.

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Front cover of 'Law and the Dead' by Marc Trabsky

Law and the Dead: Technology, Relations and Institutions

Marc Trabsky


Marc Trabsky, Law and the Dead: Technology, Relations and Institutions (Routledge, 2019).

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Front cover of 'Spaces of Justice: Peripheries, Passages, Appropriations'

Walking with the Dead: Coronial Law and Spatial Justice in the Necropolis

Marc Trabsky


Marc Trabsky, ‘Walking with the Dead: Coronial Law and Spatial Justice in the Necropolis’ in Chris Butler and Ed Mussawir (eds), Spaces of Justice: Peripheries, Passages, Appropriations (Routledge, 2017) pp 94-109.

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Law textbook annotated

The Coronial Manual and the Bureaucratic Logic of the Coroner’s Office

Marc Trabsky


Marc Trabsky, ‘The Coronial Manual and the Bureaucratic Logic of the Coroner’s Office’ (2016) 12(2) International Journal of Law in Context 195-209.

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Stone statue of person sitting holding their knees

Negotiating Grief and Trauma in the Coronial Jurisdiction

Marc Trabsky and Paula Baron


Marc Trabsky and Paula Baron, ‘Negotiating Grief and Trauma in the Coronial Jurisdiction’ (2016) 23(3) Journal of Law and Medicine 582-594.

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'The Custodian of Memories'

Marc Trabsky


Marc Trabsky, ‘The Custodian of Memories: Coronial Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne’ (2015) 24(2) Griffith Law Review 199-220.

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a crowd of people standing around a market

'Institutionalising the Public Abattoir’

Marc Trabsky


Marc Trabsky, ‘Institutionalising the Public Abattoir in Nineteenth Century Colonial Melbourne’ (2014) 40(2) Australian Feminist Law Journal 169-184.

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white and yellow moth on black surface

'Law in the Marketplace'

Marc Trabsky


Marc Trabsky, ‘Law in the Marketplace’ in Yoriko Otomo and Edward Mussawir (ed), Law and the Question of the Animal: A Critical Jurisprudence (Routledge, 2013) pp 133-148.