Jamie Susskind
Jamie Susskind is an English barrister and author.Background
Jamie Susskind is the son of Richard Susskind, a notable British author, and is Jewish. He studied history and politics at Oxford University. He later studied law and was appointed as a research fellow at Harvard’s Kerman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He practises law at the English firm Littleton Chambers.
Susskind left the Labour Party over allegations of institutional antisemitism.Writings
In 2011, Davenant Press published Susskind's first book, Karl Marx and British Intellectuals in the 1930s.
Susskind's second book Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech, published by Oxford University Press, was listed by the London School of Economics as one of the top ten books of 2019. In the book, Susskind approaches the issues of technological change in the political arena from a legal standpoint, speculating on the various ways technology would change the interactions between citizens and the political process. It was awarded Book of the Year by Evening Standard and Prospect Magazine, Book of the Day by The Guardian and received the 2019 Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize.
