Professor Saptarishi Bandopadhyay is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, a research Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research at York University, and a Senior Fellow at Melbourne University Law School. He is the author of the 2022 book “All Is Well: Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State” (Oxford University Press), which offers a history of the mutually constitutive relationship between disasters and states during the eighteenth-century and show the enduring influence of the underlying narratives, instincts, techniques, and practices on global disaster management today. His current projects include examining the history of war, environmental degradation/disasters, and human displacement from 1860 to the present, as well as looking at the legal and environmental history of the relationship between the international environmentalism movement of the 1960s and 70s, and contemporary global crises of food insecurity and climate change. Read more.