Ben P. White is a Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation in the Australian Centre for Health Law Research in the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology. His research expertise focuses on end-of-life decision-making, and as a former law reform commissioner, he has had a long-standing involvement in law reform. Lindy Willmott is a Professor of Law in the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (of which she was a foundation Director) in the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology. She has extensively researched in the end-of-life field, and has had broad practical experience as a law reform commissioner.
'Overall, the book aims to support reform efforts to improve end‐of‐life law and practice. Considering the increasing number of jurisdictions regulating end‐of‐life (especially assisted dying), this is a book on an aspect of the debate (why and how reform happens) often not given sufficient importance. While indeed 'all politics is local' (p. 266), the motivations for such legislation are shared, and experience from other jurisdictions is crucial to the creation of a good law. An important piece of work.' Nataly Papadopoulou, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK