Calleva Lecture 2026: Jamie Susskind on The Digital Republic | Magdalen College
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Barrister Jamie Susskind will deliver the 2026 Calleva Lecture on the theme of "The Digital Republic: Where Technology and Politics Collide"
In the 2026 Calleva Lecture, author and barrister Jamie Susskind (
https://www.jamiesusskind.com/
) 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).
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