Kojo Koram is Professor of Law and Political Economy at the School of Law, Loughborough University. His research examines the relationship between law and political economy, with a particular focus on the economic legacies of imperialism and the criminalisation and commodification of drugs. His work has been supported by external grants from the Open Society Foundation, the Joffe Trust, Friends Provident Foundation, and the Network for Social Change.
Prior to joining Loughborough, he taught at Birkbeck, University of London, and the University of Essex, and has held visiting teaching appointments at the University of Melbourne and the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo.
Koram is the author of Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire, which won the English PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing, as well as longlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, and selected as a Guardian Book of the Year. He is also the editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Color Line, and the forthcoming The Next Fix: The Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs, which explores the rapid rebranding of criminalised substances within a growing global industry.
He was awarded the Julien Mezey Dissertation Award by the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities for his doctoral research, recognised for its contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture, and the humanities. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has served as external examiner for the LLB programme at SOAS, University of London.
