Donated Bodies: CRRJ Director to Co-Direct New Project, Examining Treatment of Human Remains

This summer, Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) will team up with Professor Kris Manjapra, faculty fellow with Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR), to lead an eight-week project that seeks to evaluate the ethical concerns raised by the widespread US practice of disposing of executed and deceased prisoners’ remains by donating their bodies to science, medicine or archival purposes.