Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Tales from the Crypt - A Metaphor, An Image, A Story -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- Part One. In Extremis -- 1. Death as the Horizon of the Law -- INTRODUCTION: LIMITING THE LAW -- SCENES FROM THE EXECUTION -- DEATH AND THE DECOMPOSITION OF JUDICIAL DISCOURSE -- CONCLUSION: THE LIMITLESS LIMIT -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- 2. Et Lex Perpetua: Dying Declarations and the Terror of Süssmayr -- INTRODUCTION -- A -- I -- II -- B -- I -- II -- C -- I -- II -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- NOTES -- 3. Killing Me Softly: Capital Punishment and the Technologies for Taking Life -- INTRODUCTION -- DOING DEATH SILENTLY, INVISIBLY -- ON THE INVISIBLE BODY OF THE CONDEMNED -- THE 'BODY IN PAIN' -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 4. The Sanctity of Death: Poetry and the Law and Ethics of Euthanasia -- INTRODUCTION -- ETHICS AND AESTHETICS: A POEM, AND AN ESSAY ON POETRY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Part Two. Post Mortem -- 5. 'But a Lump of Earth'?: The Legal Status of the Corpse -- A LEGAL HISTORY OF THE CORPSE -- Enter the Body Snatchers -- The 'Right' of Burial: Possession and Disposal of the Corpse -- More Property than Person? -- THEORISING THE CORPSE -- POSTSCRIPT: A COHERENT VIEW OF THE COMPLETE PERSON? -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- 6. Bodily Remains in the Cemetery and the Burial Ground: A Comparative Anthropology of Law and Death or How Long Can I Stay? -- ARCHAEOLOGY AND ABORIGINAL REMAINS -- THE ENGLISH BACKGROUND TO THE LAW OF BODILY REMAINS -- AUSTRALIAN ATTITUDES -- CHARACTERISING THE RIGHT TO REMAIN ONCE BURIED -- ABORIGINAL VIEWS -- RESOLVING CONFLICTS WITH ARCHAEOLOGY -- LEGAL CONTROL OF ABORIGINAL BURIAL SITES -- LAW, PERCEPTIONS OF MORTALITY AND THE FUTURE -- NOTES -- 7. Did He Fall or Was He Pushed?: Inquiring into Pitjantjatjara Deaths -- DEATH AND THE POLICE -- DEATH AND THE PITJANTJATJARA.

Ritual Inquest: The Aboriginal Coronial Method -- The Process of Ritual Inquest -- CONCLUSION: DID HE FALL OR WAS HE PUSHED? -- NOTES -- 8. Pro Patria Mori: Law, Reconciliation and the Nation -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- Part Three. Memento Mori -- 9. Law Deathbound: Antigone and the Dialectics of Nomos and Thanatos -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- NOTES -- 10. The Ethical Obligation to Show Allegiance to the Un- knowable -- THE DEATH OF MY OTHER AND THE SURVIVING ME: : NONSENSE AND SENSIBILITY -- LEGAL VISION AND THE APPROPRIATION OF DEATH S ABSURDITY -- THE OTHER AS 'LIVING-THING' AND LEGAL CLOSURE -- BEYOND THE KNOWLEDGE AND DESIRE OF THE LIVING- THING : RUPTURE OF LEGAL CLOSURE -- NOTES -- 11. Stephen Dedalus' Magic Words: Death and the Law between James Joyce and Pierre Legendre -- INTRODUCTION -- INSTITUTING LAW: DEATH, DESIRE AND THE VOID -- WRITING AND THE CONSTITUTING VOID: THE EPIPHANY -- DEATH AND A Portrait -- WRITING THE REVOLT -- 'THE DEAD: DEATH, LOVE AND THE COUNTER- LAW -- ENDNOTE -- NOTES -- 12. Courting Death -- NOTES -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 [Cth] -- 112 -- 120-1 -- Aboriginal peoples -- 111-23 -- 128-45 -- burial 11-3 -- burial 118-23 -- corpse 106 -- corpse 118-9 -- inquest 135-41 -- inquest 142-5 -- aesthetics, in and of law -- 37-40 -- 46-7 -- 79-85 -- 88-9 -- 194-6 -- 212 -- 220 -- 223-7 -- 230 -- Airedale NSW Trust v Bland 184-90 -- Aladjem, Terry 69-70 -- alterity -- 2 -- 168-79 -- 181-90 -- 196-8 -- 230 -- Anatomy Act 1832 [UK] -- 99-100 -- 114 -- Anderson, Benedict 148 -- Andrews v R 35 -- Antigone -- 14 -- 163-79 -- archaeology -- 112-3 -- 119-20 -- Ariès, Philippe -- 6 -- 41 -- Asmal, Kader 150 -- ate 173 -- Attia v British Gas 95 -- Australian Museum 113 -- Barrès, Maurice 148 -- Barton, Justice 103 -- Bataille, Georges 181.

Bauman, Zygmund 148 -- Beckett, Samuel -- 2 -- 14 -- Bedau, Hugo 58 -- Beezer, Judge -- 62 -- 64 -- 65 -- Being [see also Heidegger] -- 163-4 -- 164-8 -- 172 -- 177-9 -- 181-2 -- 188-90 -- Benjamin, Walter 178 -- Births and Deaths Registration Act 1836 [UK] 131 -- Black, George Murray 113 -- Blackmun, Justice -- 28 -- 69 -- Blackstone, William 97-8 -- Blanchot, Maurice -- 2 -- 12 -- 19-20 -- Bland, Anthony 184-90 -- Boccaccio 219-20 -- Bourdieu, Pierre 47 -- Brennan, Justice 41 -- Britten, Benjamin 41 -- burial -- 8-9 -- 104 -- 111-23 -- 152-3 -- Burton, Justice 61 -- Butterworth, Robert 53 -- Callins v Collins -- 28 -- 69 -- Campbell v Wood -- 62 -- 63 -- 67 -- 69 -- Camperdown Cemetery Act 1948 [NSW] -- 112 -- 117 -- Capellanus, Andreas 218 -- carrion -- 116 -- 122 -- cemetery -- 112-4 -- 114-8 -- classicism, law and -- 37-40 -- 46-7 -- closure, law as -- 19-50 -- 185 -- Coke, Edward 97 -- community -- 43 -- 80-1 -- 86-7 -- 151 -- 153-8 -- Conversion of Cemeteries Act 1974 [NSW] 116 -- Coroner's Act 1887 [UK] 131-2 -- corpse -- 8-9 -- 148-9 -- legal history of 96-103 -- legal history of 113-8 -- legal status of 104-6 -- legal status of 122-3 -- Cover, Robert 39 -- Craig, Jackson, Lisa, and family 128-45 -- Creon 175-6 -- Critchley, Simon 2 -- Cruzan 184 -- crypt -- 3-4 -- 11 -- 15 -- de Certeau, Michel 53 -- death penalty, history -- 21-5 -- 56-9 -- jurisprudence 25-30 -- jurisprudence 59-68 -- techniques 54-6 -- techniques 58-68 -- Derrida, Jacques -- 5-6 -- 9 -- 36 -- dike -- 167-8 -- 173 -- 176-7 -- Doodeward v Spence -- 102-3 -- 118 -- 122 -- Dworkin, Ronald -- 81 -- 85 -- Elias, Norbert 1 -- ethics -- 2-15 -- 77-81 -- 84-5 -- 88 -- 181-90 -- euthanasia -- 8 -- 78-81 -- 84-89 -- Evans, Richard -- 21 -- 24 -- Eyre, Chief Baron -- 35 -- 38 -- 41 -- 44 -- Fierro v Gomez -- 62 -- 64 -- 67 -- 69 -- finality, law and 28-30.

Fish, Stanley 187-8 -- Fitzpatrick, Peter 4 -- formalism and positivism in law -- 45-50 -- 227 -- 230 -- Foucault, Michel -- 56 -- 59 -- Francis v Resweber -- 60-1 -- 63 -- 67 -- Francis, Willie 60-1 -- Freud, Sigmund -- 163 -- 176 -- 201 -- Gatrell, VAC -- 21 -- 23 -- Geertz, Clifford 145 -- Gibbs, Chief Justice 119 -- Gilbert v Buzzard -- 116 -- 122 -- Gittings, Clare 98 -- Goff, Lord -- 185 -- 190 -- Gonzalez v Metro Dade 95-6 -- Griffith, Chief Justice 102 -- Hale, Matthew 97 -- Hay, Douglas 39 -- Haynes' Case -- 96-7 -- 114 -- Heaney, Seamus 83-9 -- hearsay, dying declarations and 34-50 -- Hegel, GWF -- 163 -- 168-9 -- Heidegger, Martin -- 163-8 -- 172 -- 177-8 -- Herrera v Collins 28 -- High Court of Love 224-5 -- Huchet, Jean-Charles 227 -- Hyde, Alan 68 -- Ignatieff, Michael -- 155 -- 157 -- Illich, Ivan 6 -- immortality -- 11-13 -- 153-9 -- In re Kemmler 59 -- inquest, coronial -- 128 -- 130-5 -- 142-5 -- Aboriginal peoples 135-41 -- Aboriginal peoples 142-5 -- January, Michael -- 154 -- 156 -- Johnson, Richard 57 -- Joyce, James -- 14 -- 194-212 -- Portrait of the Artist 195-6 -- Portrait of the Artist 199 -- Portrait of the Artist 202-9 -- The Dead 209-12 -- justice -- 50 -- 157-9 -- 179 -- 230 -- Kafka, Franz 4 -- Kavanagh, Patrick 83-7 -- Keith, Lord 185-90 -- Kemmler, William 53 -- Kojeve, Alexander 168-9 -- Lacan, Jacques -- 163-4 -- 168 -- 169-74 -- 177-8 -- Lange, Dorothea 1 -- law -- as death 164-8 -- as death 196-207 -- as desire 168-72 -- as desire 187-8 -- as desire 196-8 -- Legendre, Pierre -- 194-8 -- 201 -- 204 -- 208 -- 212 -- limit -- 19-21 -- 30 -- 164 -- 178 -- Locke, John -- 115 -- 118 -- Lockhart, Justice 118 -- logos -- 172-3 -- 176-7 -- love -- 158-9 -- 173-5 -- 177-9 -- 201-2 -- 207-12 -- 216-30 -- Lyotard, Jean-François 156 -- Lévinas, Emmanuel -- 181-4 -- 188-90 -- Mabo v Queensland [No.2 ] 122.

Machetti v Linham 29 -- MacPherson, CB 114 -- McCleskey v Kemp 29 -- McLoughlin v O'Brien 95-6 -- Medina, Pedro -- 53-5 -- 70 -- memory -- 13-14 -- 149-50 -- 152-8 -- 223-4 -- Milirrpum v Nabalco 122 -- Mohammed, Justice 151-2 -- mourning -- 13-14 -- 158-9 -- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus -- 37-40 -- 43-50 -- Murder Act 1752 [UK] 96 -- Murdoch, Iris 80 -- Mustil, Lord 185 -- narrative -- 77-81 -- 84-8 -- 194-212 -- nation 148-59 -- National Parks and Wildlife Act [1974 NSW] -- 112 -- 120 -- Nietzsche, Friedrich 163 -- nomos -- 40 -- 163 -- Oedipus -- 163 -- 169-70 -- 176 -- Onus v Alcoa of Australia 119 -- Ovid -- 196-7 -- 212 -- 217 -- Owen, Wilfrid 148-9 -- Patel, Judge 64-5 -- Persistent Vegetative State 183-90 -- personhood, concepts of -- 6-7 -- 80-1 -- 83-6 -- 89 -- 103-6 -- 114-5 -- 122-3 -- 164-79 -- 182-90 -- 228-9 -- Phedon 183 -- Pierce v Proprietors of Swan 100-1 -- R v Lynn 99 -- R v Price 100 -- R v Sharpe 101 -- R v Stewart 100 -- R v Woodcock -- 34-5 -- 41 -- 44 -- 49 -- Ratten v R 35 -- reconciliation -- 9 -- 148-59 -- Reed, Justice 60-1 -- Reinhardt, Judge 63-5 -- religion -- 5-6 -- 11-3 -- 114-5 -- 194-5 -- 197-207 -- 216-7 -- Renan, E 157 -- responsibility -- 2-15 -- 26-8 -- risk, in love and death -- 217-20 -- 228-9 -- ritual, law and -- 47-9 -- 135-40 -- Rose, Gillian -- 13 -- 158-9 -- Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody -- 137 -- 140 -- Sansom, Basil -- 138 -- 141 -- Sawyer v Whitley 28 -- Scalia, Justice 69 -- Scarry, Elaine 66-7 -- Simmonds, Nigel 87 -- Smith v Kemp 29 -- Smith, Adam 53 -- Song of Ignorance 221-3 -- Stallworthy, Jon 81-3 -- Stevens, Justice 184 -- Stotz, Gertrude 137 -- Strauss, Ricard 42 -- suffering -- 61-8 -- 85-6 -- 188-90 -- 223 -- suicide -- 8 -- 78-81 -- Süssmayr, Franz Xavier -- 44 -- 46-7 -- 50 -- Tasmanian Dams Case 121 -- thanatos -- 173 -- 217 -- 220 -- time -- 1-2 -- 175-7 -- 182.

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