Edward Cavanagh is the Trillium Scholar at the University of Ottawa\'s Department of History, where he also holds R. Roy McMurtry Fellowship in Canadian Legal History. He has published several articles in the fields of history and law, and his second book, Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa (Palgrave Macmillan), was released in April this year. He is also the co-founder and managing editor of Settler Colonial Studies.