Congratulations to , who recently completed his PhD at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law, Interception: Law, Media, and Techniques. The thesis places recent developments in the law concerning the interception of communication into historical context. It uses archival sources to reconstruct secret interception practices, from letter opening in the 17th-century Post Office to the modern internet, and examines the legal and administrative media that both organise such practices, and ensure that they remain officially secret. Bernard is now a lecturer in the School of Law at Birkbeck College, London.