Tanya Marsh, JD

Legal Strategy

Tanya is a Professor at Wake Forest University School of Law. A graduate of Indiana University and Harvard Law School, she is a licensed attorney in the State of Indiana and a licensed funeral director in the State of California. Tanya teaches courses in property and real estate transactions, as well as the only course in a U.S. law school on funeral and cemetery law. She clerked for the Indiana Supreme Court and practiced commercial real estate and corporate law before joining the Wake Forest faculty in 2010.

Tanya has been called “our nation’s foremost academic scholar on the law of cemeteries and human remains” and is the author of The Law of Human Remains (2015) and the co-author of the first casebook on Cemetery Law (2015).