Beer Law

Author:   Dan Jerker B. Svantesson (Bond University, Queensland) ,  William Van Caenegem (Bond University, Queensland) ,  Anthea Gerrard (Bond University, Queensland) ,  Radim Polčák (Masarykova univerzita, Czech Republic)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009632591


Pages:   270
Publication Date:   16 October 2025
Format:   Paperback
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Beer Law


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Beer affects the law, and the law affects beer. The regulation of beer goes back thousands of years, and beer laws have shaped society in both obvious and unexpected ways. Beer Law provides a fun and accessible account of the complex interaction between law and beer. The book engages with a broad range of beer law topics including: • Health, • Intellectual property, • Consumer protection and unfair competition, • Contract, • Competition, • International trade, • Environment, • Tax. The book also provides a detailed description of beer, brewing, beer as a product, and the brewing industry, as well as an overview of some broad lessons from the regulation of beer. Given the importance of understanding law in context, the book also explores beer, beer culture and beer laws in more detail with a focus on Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, the Nordic countries, North America, and Britain and Ireland.

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Author:   Dan Jerker B. Svantesson (Bond University, Queensland) ,  William Van Caenegem (Bond University, Queensland) ,  Anthea Gerrard (Bond University, Queensland) ,  Radim Polčák (Masarykova univerzita, Czech Republic)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Weight:   0.442kg
ISBN:  

9781009632591


ISBN 10:   1009632590
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   16 October 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table 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.

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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.

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