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Grave-robbers, mummies, cyborgs!
Marc Trabsky was recently interviewed on the Case in Point podcast by Professor Melissa Castan and James Pattison about the High Court of Australia case of Doodeward v Spence [1908] HCA 45; (1908) 6 CLR 406 (31 July 1908). The strange story begins in 1868 with a two-headed still-born baby and offers an answer to the perennial question of whether a person can own a dead body. Explored further in Chapter 4 of Death: New Trajectories of Law, Marc talks about grave-robbers, mummies, cyborgs and how Doodeward continues to impact the Australian legal system in the 21st century.