Comments on: Some Wine With Your Law? A Law School Course in Wine

By: Below The Beltway

Below The Beltway — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:11:50 +0000

The One Class I Never Would Have Missed

Professor Bainbridge links to this article at Concurring Opinions about a course in Wine Law being offered at the Law School at UC-Berkeley.

By: ProfessorBainbridge.com

ProfessorBainbridge.com — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 21:45:52 +0000

Would that it were so

Law professor and blawgger Dan Solove recently posted this observation:Boalt Hall (Berkeley Law School) is offering a course about wine law, accompanied by extensive wine tasting:Most students at Boalt Hall School of Law learn by reading class material…

By: Professor Bainbridge on Wine

Professor Bainbridge on Wine — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:39:30 +0000

A Course Proposal

By: Concurring Opinions

Concurring Opinions — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:09:43 +0000

Unusual Law School Classes

I recently posted about a law school course about wine, only to discover that it’s not all that unusual. That got me thinking fondly of my days in law school, where there were many unusual courses – probably due to…

By: Daniel J. Solove

Daniel J. Solove — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 02:26:45 +0000

Who would have thought there’d be so many wine law courses? I do hope that they all come with wine tastings. And I wonder whether there might even be a casebook to accompany a case of wine.

By: Ann Bartow

Ann Bartow — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 02:13:33 +0000

http://www.nyu.edu/classes/siva/archives/002274.html

By: Michael Froomkin

Michael Froomkin — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:05:25 +0000

U.Miami has been teaching wine law for *years*:

224 A ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LAW

STEPHEN DIAMOND

The manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages are heavily regulated and have at times been prohibited. By the term of Repeal, states have authority vis-a-vis alcoholic beverages that they do not have over ordinary commercial enterprises. This course looks at evolving federal-state jurisdiction over alcoholic beverages and at the varied state alcoholic beverage regimes. Regulation of manufacture, distribution and sale of alcoholic beverages will be examined. The history of these subjects will be included, since the shadow of prohibition still looms over them.