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3 - The Legal Aspects of Human Remains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2020

Margaret Clegg
Margaret Clegg
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University College London
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The most significant legal aspects are the legal changes in the major countries involved in repatriation requests and those in European countries, including the UK, that deal with international requests for return. The chapter also looks at how countries such as the US that have a legal framework for national returns deal with international requests and how these processes differ from those internal repatriations. The chapter also examines the more general laws pertaining to human remains, from burial laws to laws dealing with very recent remains concerning donations of bodies to science and medicine, licensing of the display of recent human remains and methods of acquisition by museums of the recently dead.

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law and human remainsBurial ActHuman Tissue ActNAGPRATreaty of Waitangi
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Human Remains
Curation, Reburial and Repatriation
 , pp. 44 - 56
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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