Foreword Acknowledgements Contributors Table of Cases Table of Legislation Table of Statutory Instruments 1. Life and Death in Private Law, Andrew Fell and Kate Falconer 2. How Private Law Regulates Intimacy and Relationships at the Edges of Life, Jonathan Herring 3. The Margins of Private Law: SB-8 and the Private Enforcement of Abortion Law, Jesse Wall 4. Deceit and the Creation of Life, Anna Broadmore 5. Human Existence as Actionable Damage?, Stephen Todd 6. The Rights of the Dead, Andrew Fell 7. With this Ring I Thee Slay: The Death of Coverture, Danaya Wright 8.

Suicide, Madness, and the State: The Tale from Tort, Kit Barker 9. Death Can be Fatal! The End of Empire and Survival of Actions Legislation in Queensland and New South Wales, Mark Lunney 10. Dealing with the Dead and Familial Discord: Contested Funerals and the Challenges for Private Law, Heather Conway 11. Cultural Negotiation of Inheritance Law in Australia, Prue Vines 12. Burial Disputes and the Work of the Dead, Kate Falconer.