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Associate professor, La Trobe University

Dr Marc Trabsky is an Associate Professor of Law and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. He combines critical theory, socio-legal research, and science and technology studies to explore the interrelations between law, technology and death. His current research project examines the socio-legal, epistemological and cultural implications of virtual autopsies in the twenty-first century.

Marc has written Law and the Dead: Technology, Relations and Institutions (Routledge, 2019), which was awarded the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand Book Prize in 2019, and Death: New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, 2023). He is also co-editing the Routledge Handbook of Law and Death (Routledge, 2024, forthcoming).

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Associate professor, La Trobe Law School
  • 2018–2022
    Senior lecturer, La Trobe Law School
  • 2013–2018
    Lecturer, La Trobe Law School

Education

  • 2017 
    University of Melbourne, PhD

Grants and Contracts

  • 2022
    Socio-Legal Implications of Virtual Autopsies in Coronial Investigations
    Role:
    CI
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council