Media Roundup for July 28, 2017
July 28th, 2017 | Research | Comments Off
Wake Forest Law faculty, students and staff are quoted regularly in the media. Following are the media mentions for the week of July 28, 2017: Continue reading »
Tanya Marsh
Professor Tanya Marsh pieces together oddities and obscurities in funeral and cemetery law
February 21st, 2017 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Tanya Marsh is a continuing advocate for legal changes to support the future of the funeral services industry, hosting the first-ever symposium on funeral and cemetery law on Feb. 24, 2017, with the support of the Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy.
NYT best-selling author Caitlin Doughty to deliver Journal of Law and Policy symposium keynote on Thursday, Feb. 23
February 2nd, 2017 | Student Life | Comments Off
The Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy (JLP) spring symposium will commence with a keynote address from Los Angeles-based mortician and funeral director Caitlin Doughty, a death positivism activist and the author of a New York Times best-seller on theory and culture, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in the Worrell Professional Center, Room 1312. The event is free and open to the public.
Professor Tanya Marsh quoted in Los Angeles Times regarding latest battle in abortion wars
January 27th, 2017 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Tanya Marsh is quoted in the following story, “The latest battlefront in the abortion wars: Some states want to require burial or cremation for fetuses,” written by Alexander Zavis and published in the Los Angeles Times on Jan. 23, 2017.
Journal of Law and Policy to live webcast ‘Disrupting the Death Care Paradigm’ symposium on Friday, Feb. 24
January 20th, 2017 | Student Life | Comments Off
The Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy will present the symposium, “Disrupting the Death Care Paradigm: Challenges to the Regulation of the Funeral Industry and the American Way of Death,” on Thursday, Feb. 23, and Friday, Feb. 24, in the Worrell Professional Center, Room 1312. The event is free and open to the public. Up to four hours of free Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit is available from the North Carolina Bar for both the live in-person event and live webcast, according to organizers. The event will be live webcast. Registration is available (but not required).
“We encourage those watching the live webcast to submit questions for any of our presenters on Twitter @WFULawJLP or e-mail JLP at wfulawpolicyjournal@gmail.com,” says Symposium Editor Erica Oates.
Professor Tanya Marsh discusses the future of bricks-and-mortar banking
January 18th, 2017 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Tanya Marsh was quoted in the following story, “Bricks-and-Mortar Banks Stage a Comeback,” written by James Watkins and published in Ozy magazine on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017.
Professor Tanya Marsh authors award-winning article for ABA magazine
January 12th, 2017 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Tanya Marsh‘s “When Death and Dirt Collide: Legal and Property Interests in Burial Places” received the 2016 Excellence in Writing Award for Best Overall Article from the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law’s Probate and Property magazine.
Professor Tanya Marsh quoted on PBS Newshour
January 6th, 2017 | Research | Comments Off
Professor Tanya Marsh is quoted in the following story, “She took her amputated leg home, and you can too,” by Kristin Hugo published by PBS Newshour on Jan. 4, 2017. An excerpt follows:
Professor Tanya Marsh co-authors casebook, ‘Real Property for the Real World: Building Skills Through Case Study’, and contributes to national conversation on fetal burial laws
January 5th, 2017 | General | Comments Off
Professor Tanya Marsh co-authored, “Real Property for the Real World: Building Skills Through Case Study,” a first-of-its-kind book which features eight in-depth case studies based on real cases, real people, real documents and real problems.
Professor Tanya Marsh analyzes Texas’ new fetal burial rules
December 5th, 2016 | Research | Comments Off
The Texas Department of State Health Services has announced that regulations limiting the way that health care facilities could dispose of aborted and miscarried fetuses will go into effect on Dec. 19, 2016. Media headlines announcing the amendments create the impression that fetal tissue in Texas will now be treated like human remains and will require a funeral director or a cemetery, according to Wake Forest Law Professor Tanya Marsh.
Professor Marsh teaches courses in property and real estate transactions, as well as the only course in a U.S. law school on funeral and cemetery law. Marsh, a licensed attorney in the State of Indiana and a licensed funeral director in the State of California, is the author of The Law of Human Remains (2015) and the co-author of Cemetery Law: The Common Law of Burying Grounds in the United States (2015). Her scholarship on the law of human remains has been cited by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, Time magazine and The Associated Press. Marsh is the founder and primary author of The Funeral Law Blog.
