Professor Heather Conway

Professor Conway’s research focuses on the laws surrounding the treatment of the dead; the legal frameworks around death, burial and cremation; and decision-making powers over human remains. She is the author of The Law and the Dead (Routledge, 2016) and is a Council Member and trustee of the Cremation Society. Professor Conway also writes and researches in property law and succession law, and is one of a number of legal scholars interested in ‘law and emotion’.