Overview
Background
Dr Kate Falconer is a Lecturer at the TC Beirne School of Law. Her research interests lie in the law of the dead and bodily disposal, and the ways in which the private law interacts with death, the dead, and dead bodies. She is particularly interested in the impacts and implications of new death technologies both for private law and society more broadly. Kate is the Secretary of the Australian Death Studies Society.
Kate has presented papers at conferences both in Australia and internationally, and has held visiting research positions at Queens University Belfast and the Hastings Center in New York. Her PhD, which focused on possessory rights and interests in the deceased human body and the implications of these interests for property theory, was awarded by the Australian National University in 2020. Kate also holds an LLM in US Law from Washington University in St Louis, as well as an LLB with Honours and an undergraduate degree in archaeology from the University of Queensland. She currently teaches Trusts and Equity.
Availability
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- Available for supervision
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Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours), The University of Queensland
- Masters (Coursework) of Law, Washington University in St Louis
- Doctor of Philosophy, Australian National University
Research interests
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Law, Death, and the Dead
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Private, Commercial and Corporate Law
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Property Law Theory
Works
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2023
Journal Article
Cryopreservation and the death of legal personhood
Falconer, Kate (2023). Cryopreservation and the death of legal personhood. Mortality. doi: 10.1080/13576275.2023.2230906
2022
Journal Article
Australian Burial Law 25 Years on from Smith v Tamworth City Council
Falconer, Kate (2022). Australian Burial Law 25 Years on from Smith v Tamworth City Council. Australian Law Journal, 96 (8), 581-594.
2021
Journal Article
The right to possession of the body of the deceased: a history
Falconer, Kate (2021). The right to possession of the body of the deceased: a history. Law and History, 8 (1), 1-25.
2021
Journal Article
Trusts over cremated ashes
Falconer, Kate (2021). Trusts over cremated ashes. Journal of Equity, 15, 283-305.
2020
Journal Article
Reconceptualising the law of the dead by expanding the interests of the living
Falconer, Kate (2020). Reconceptualising the law of the dead by expanding the interests of the living. Monash University. Law Review, 45 (3), 757-784.
2019
Journal Article
Dismantling Doodeward: guided discretion as the superior basis for property rights in human biological material
Falconer, Kate (2019). Dismantling Doodeward: guided discretion as the superior basis for property rights in human biological material. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 42 (3), 899-927.
2019
Journal Article
An illogical distinction continued: Re Cresswell and property rights in human biological material
Falconer, Kate (2019). An illogical distinction continued: Re Cresswell and property rights in human biological material. University of New South Wales Law Journal Forum.
Supervision
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Media
Enquiries
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- Burial disputes
- Law and the dead
- Law of bodily disposal
- Property in the human body
- Property rights
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