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Lawyers will enjoy learning about beer and how the law has shaped the brewing industry over the years, while brewers and beer drinkers will find an accessible overview of the complex laws that impact beer and brewing.
List of contents
1. About beer, beer brewing, and beer law; 2. Germany - purity laws, beer gardens and beer wars; 3. Healthy laws for unhealthy beers?; 4. The Nordic countries - from 'lagom' to the extreme and back again; 5. Beer seen through intellectual property glasses, and intellectual property through beer glasses...; 6. Belgium as a beer country (or beer as a Belgian country?); 7. Consumer protection and unfair competition law; 8. Czech beer culture - the Urquell and 'going for a one'; 9. Contracts, competition, international trade, and the environment; 11. Why tax beer - what has it achieved?; 12. British and Irish beer traditions; 13. Broader lessons from the regulation of beer; Postscript.
About the author
Dan Jerker B. Svantesson is Professor at the Faculty of Law, Bond University. He has written extensively on international aspects of Internet law and data privacy. He is also an award-winning amateur brewer, including a Chocolate Baltic Porter being 'Best of Show' amongst 580 competing beers in the 2022 Queensland Amateur Brewing Championship.William Van Caenegem is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, Bond University, QLD Australia and an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He holds a Masters and Doctoral degree from Cambridge University, and previously published the monograph 'Intellectual Property and Innovation' with Cambridge University Press. He has written extensively on IP law, brand protection and competition issues.Anthea Jane Gerrard is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, Bond University. She studied commerce, law and accounting in South Africa, the United Kingdom and Australia; is an associate member of the Tax Institute of Australia, previous editor of the Revenue Law Journal; taught taxation law and constitutional covering the role of excise duties between different jurisdictions for over twenty years.Radim Polčák is Professor at the Institute of Law and Technology, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University. He founded the Institute of Law and Technology at Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, where the law of specific production (including beer law) has been taught and researched among other fields of technology law. He has written extensively about the theory and philosophy of technology law.Alain Strowel is a professor at Université Catholique de Louvain where he teaches courses in intellectual property, IT and media law. He is also an attorney at the Brussels bar. He graduated in law, economics and philosophy at the UCLouvain and the University of Amsterdam. Today his research focuses on data governance, Artificial Intelligence and the regulation of online platforms.Andreas Wiebe is Chair for Civil Law, Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition Law, Media and Information Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Göttingen, Germany. He has Several publications on unfair competition law and IP in German and English; Co-editor of the Commentary on Unfair Competition Law in Austria since 2007; organiser of annual conferences on IP and unfair competition law in Germany and Austria: active member of the German IP Association (GRUR); Director of the LL.M. Programme on European and Transnational IP and ICT Law at University of Göttingen.
