Jamie Susskind

Practice Areas

Jamie acts in cases of particular importance and difficulty.

In the employment sphere, he has represented some of the most prominent businesses in the world, as well as the most senior employees and directors.

In the commercial sphere, he is regularly instructed in business protection claims, conspiracy claims, restraint of trade and ‘team move’ disputes, and matters involving breaches of directors’ and fiduciary duties.

Many of Jamie’s cases relate to tech, data, and privacy law. He is presently instructed by the Information Commissioner in two high-profile appeals against penalties imposed by the regulator– by Clearview AI and TikTok.

In the field of public law, Jamie was most recently instructed in a judicial review of the Prime Minister and others, in connection with their use of non-government communications systems.

Career

Jamie was called to the Bar after graduating first in his year from the University of Oxford. He has held fellowships at Harvard University and the University of Cambridge.

Professional Memberships

ELA, ELBA

Publications

Jamie is an expert in legal issues relating to digital technology. His book Future Politics (Oxford, 2018) received the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize and was an LSE, Prospect, and Evening Standard book of the year. Jamie’s latest book, The Digital Republic (Bloomsbury, 2022), was described by The Economist as ‘a wise manifesto for digital democracy’. His research was cited by Lord Sales JSC in Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law.

Jamie is the co-author of two chapters in International Employment Disputes (Eds. Oudkerk and Rogers, Sweet & Maxwell, 2019).