Marc Trabsky

Assoc Professor

Accepting PhD Students

20112025

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Personal profile

Biography

Dr Marc Trabsky is an Associate Professor and the Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Justice Innovation in the Faculty of Law at Monash University. Before joining Monash in 2025, Marc was an Associate Professor at La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University.

Marc is a socio-legal researcher in the fields of coronial law, end-of-life law and health law. He has written Law and the Dead: Technology, Relations and Institutions (Routledge, 2019), which won the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand (LSAANZ) Book Prize (2019), Death: New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, 2024) and co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death (Routledge, 2025). He was awarded an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship (2022-2025) on the socio-legal implications of forensic imaging technology in the twenty-first century.

Marc has been a Liberty Fellow at the University of Leeds, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Bath, University of Kent, University of Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney. He is an Expert Advisory Panellist of the Health+Law Research Partnership, an Affiliate Member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) and the Vice-President of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand.

Supervision interests

Marc welcomes potential students interested in researching in the areas of health law, end-of-life law, coronial law, and/or socio-legal studies.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, University of Melbourne

Award Date: 4 Dec 2017

MPhil, University of Sydney

Award Date: 19 Oct 2012

LLB (Hons), University of Melbourne

Award Date: 5 Apr 2008

BA, University of Melbourne

Award Date: 5 Apr 2008

External positions

Vice President, Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand

2025 → …

Expert Advisor, Health+Law Reseach Partnership

2023 → …

Affiliate Member, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society

2022 → …

Research area keywords

  • health law
  • end-of-life law
  • coronial law
  • socio-legal studies
  • legal history
  • legal theory

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