Life and Death in Private Law (Paperback)

Dr Kate Falconer

ISBN 10: 1509969365 / ISBN 13: 9781509969364

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Oxford, 2026

About this Item

Paperback. 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. A fascinating study of how life and death shape private law and conversely how private law's engagement with life and death illustrates their meaning and value. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life and Death in Private Law (Paperback)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509969365
• ISBN 13: 9781509969364
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Kate Falconer is Lecturer at the School of Law and Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork, Ireland.

Kit Barker is Professor of Law at the TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland.


Photograph © The University of Queensland 2016

Andrew Fell is Lecturer at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia.