Saptarishi Bandopadhyay is an assistant professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. He holds a doctorate from Harvard University, master’s degrees from Harvard Law School and American University, and he received his formal legal training at the National University of Juridical Sciences in India. Saptarishi’s first book, All Is Well: Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State was published by Oxford University Press in 2022. His work has appeared in encyclopedias, edited volumes, and in legal and interdisciplinary journals such as the University of British Columbia Law Review, the Fordham Environmental Law Review, Global Jurist, the Indian Journal of International Law, and the Journal of Intellectual Property Rights. Saptarishi has studied and worked in disaster management in central India, in the borderlands between India, Pakistan, and China, and in the Philippines. He has trained and advised officials and civil society in India, Thailand, Canada, and at the United Nations, and he has published widely on disaster risk, international law, and related areas. Saptarishi has received research and advocacy grants and fellowships from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Harvard University, the Public International Law and Policy Group, the Center for International Environmental Law, Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies, York University's Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, and the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society, among other institutions.
Research keywords:
Disasters; humanitarianism; human displacement; international law; international environmental law and politics; global public health; climate change; risk
Themes | Global Health & Humanitarianism |
Status | Active |
Events |
Visions of Crisis, Blueprints of Rule, with Saptarishi Bandopadhyay | August 29, 2022 |
Related Work |
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Updates |
Recap — Living in a Global Hinge Moment: Thinking Critically About Global Crises, with Saptarishi Bandopadhyay | October 7, 2024
New book explores catastrophe and the making of the normal state | October 25, 2022 New Book on Disaster Management: All Is Well | February 14, 2022 Student Opportunity: War, environmental damage/disasters, climate change, and forced migration Research Assistant | July 22, 2021 |
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