Professor Kojo Koram joined Loughborough Law in September 2025.
Prior to joining Loughborough Law, Kojo taught at Birkbeck College, University of London and the University of Essex. He has also taken up visiting teaching posts at the University of Melbourne and a Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo.
His PhD was awarded the Julien Mezey Dissertation Award by the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities for the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture and the humanities.
His debut monograph Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire (London: John Murray) won the English PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize and was shortlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing, The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing, as well as longlisted for The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.
Professor Kojo Koram is a critical legal scholar whose work has achieved an impact both inside and outside the academy. Prof Koram’s work examines law’s relationship to political economy, with a particularly focus on two areas: 1) the economic legacy of imperialism and 2) the criminalisation and commodification of drugs.
His research has been supported by external grants from Open Society Foundation, the Joffe Trust, Friends Provident Foundation and the Network for Social Change
He is currently working on his second monograph The Next Fix: Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs, which traces how drug laws have changed over the past decade over a number of different jurisdictions and interrogates what these changes reveal about contemporary capitalism.
Prof Koram has taught a range of law subjects at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. These include International Law, Human Rights, Property Law, Contract Law and Introductions to the Legal System.
Kojo is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has served as an external examiner on the LLB at SOAS, University of London.
Books
- Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire (London: John Murray 2022)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- “The Legalisation of Cannabis and the Question of Reparations”, published in Journal of International Economic Law, 25, No.2 (June 2023)
- “Drug Prohibition and the Policing of Warfare”, published in Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development,13 No.1 (April 2022)
- “The Vitorian recovery and the (re)turn towards a sacrificial international law”, published in London Review of International Law, Vol.6, No.3 (March 2019)
- “Satan is Black: Frantz Fanon’s Juridico-Theology of Racialisation and Damnation” In Law, Culture and the Humanities, 18, No.1 (November 2017)
Book Chapters
- “The War on Drugs as the War on the Non-Human”, In: Arvidsson, M. and Jones, E. (eds.) International Law and Posthuman Theory. (Abingdon, UK and New York, U.S.: Routledge 2024), pp. 244-257
- “Drug prohibition and the end of human rights: race, “Evil,” and the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961” In Susannah Wilson (ed.) Prohibitions and Psychoactive Substances in History, Culture and Theory. (London: Routledge 2019)