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Public Lecture with Professor Kojo Koram
The Next Fix: The Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs
Location: MS.04 Zeeman building
Abstract
The Next Fix: the future of drugs is here, and it’s dangerously unequal.
Over the last decade, the status quo around drugs has collapsed. Drugs once sold as safe cures have been revealed as ineffective or dangerous, while substances criminalised for generations are being reborn as breakthrough mental health treatments, wellness supplements, Silicon Valley productivity tools and billion-dollar investment opportunities. How did this reversal happen – and who stands to benefit?
Tracing one of the most significant legal shifts happening across the globe at the moment, in this presentation I will explore what changing drugs laws means for our understanding of the direction of travel for late-stage capitalism.
Speaker Bio
Professor Kojo Koram is Professor of Law and Political Economy at Loughborough Law.
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.
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