Hart has just published ‘Persons, Parts and Property' edited by
Imogen Goold, Kate Greasley, Jonathan Herring and Loane Sken. Full
details about the book can be found at http://www.hartpub.co.uk/BookDetails.aspx?ISBN=9781849465465
. I have attached a discount order form for those who might be
interested in ordering.
It looks fascinating:
The debate over
whether human bodies and their
parts should be governed by the laws of property has accelerated
with the pace
of technological change. Having long held that a corpse could
not be property,
the common law first recognised that there could be a property
interest in
human tissue in some circumstances in the early 1900s, but it
was not until a
string of judicial decisions and statutory regulation in the
1990s and early
2000s that the place of this 'exception' was cemented. The 2009
decision of the
Court of Appeal of England and Wales in Yearworth & Ors
v North Bristol
NHS Trust added a new dimension to the debate by
supporting a move towards
a broader, more principled basis for finding (or rejecting)
property rights in
human tissue. However, the law relating to property rights in
human bodies and
their parts remains highly contested. The contributions in this
volume
represent a collation of the broad spectrum of analyses on
offer, and provide a
detailed exploration of the salient legal and theoretical
puzzles arising out
of the body-as-property question
Sincerely,
--
Jason Neyers
Professor of Law
Faculty of Law
Western University
N6A 3K7
(519) 661-2111 x. 88435