Dr Marc Trabsky is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Monash University. He combines critical theory, socio-legal research and science and technology studies to explore relations between law, technology and death. He was awarded an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship (2022-2026) on the socio-legal implications of forensic imaging technology in the twenty-first century.

Marc has written the award-winning Law and the Dead: Technology, Relations and Institutions (Routledge, 2019), Death: New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, 2024) and co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death (Routledge, 2025). 

Marc has been a Liberty Fellow at the University of Leeds, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Bath, University of Kent, University of Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney. He is a member of the Warren Centre for Civil Justice, the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, the Stakeholder Advisory Group of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences, and he is the Vice-President of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand.