Savannah Law Review Symposium: The Walking Dead

The Savannah Law Review is looking for papers for their September The Walking Dead, on September 18-19, 2015 symposium,



The symposium will survey academic topics about how death, and fear of death, affects the law of the living.  The Walking Dead Colloquium will provide a forum to discuss the “shadowy” legal interpolation of the dead on the living and explore both its positive and negative ramifications in an effort to strike a pluralistic balance between the law of past, present, and future.  Thematic examples include:

• Legal recognition of the dead’s wishes affecting real property and intellectual property


• Regulation of pandemics from yellow fever to Ebola


• Constitutional analysis relying upon views of the dead—the Framers—versus a “living” Constitution


• The death penalty


• Desecration laws


• The Right to Die Movement


• Posthumous evidentiary privileges


• Wrongful death and rights of survivorship


• Regulation of corpses, organ donation, and burials


• Stigma harms to real property inhabited by ghosts


• Post-apocalyptic justice.

Abstracts no longer than 500 words are due by August 1, 2015.