Tanya D. Marsh is a Professor at Wake Forest University School of Law in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A graduate of Indiana University (B.A. '95) and Harvard Law School (J.D. '00), Marsh is a licensed attorney in the State of Indiana and a licensed funeral director in the State of California. Marsh has been called "our nation's foremost academic scholar on the law of cemeteries and human remains." At Wake Forest, Marsh 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 is also a respected commercial real estate attorney, an active member of the leadership of the American Bar Association's Real Property Trust and Estate Law Section, and has been elected to the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. She is the creator and primary author of The Funeral Law Blog and a contributor to The Huffington Post.