Calleva Lecture: “The Digital Republic: Where Technology and Politics Collide” with Jamie Susskind

In the 2026 Calleva Lecture, author and barrister Jamie Susskind will discuss the challenges to freedom and democracy posed by the current era of technology and tech companies. Bringing together political theory and models for governance, he proposes clear-eyed solutions to these problems.

Jamie Susskind read History and Politics at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating top of his class in 2010. He was subsequently called to the Bar and is a Tenant at 11 King’s Bench Walk. Jamie’s legal practice specialises in information, technology and media law, employment and commercial law, public law and human rights, and sports law. He is the author of two highly-regarded books, Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech (Oxford University Press, 2018), which was Evening Standard and Prospect Book of the Year and received the 2019 Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize; and The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century (Bloomsbury, 2022).

The lecture includes a Q&A and is due to finish at 6.30pm, followed by a drinks reception in the Auditorium foyer.

Registration for in-person or online attendance is welcome via Eventbrite.

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