Trandafir Writing Competition
2010-2011 Competition Winner
Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems is pleased to announce the winner of the 2010-2011 Trandafir Intnernational Business Writing Competition. This year we received more than thirty exceptional submissions from law students across the United States and overseas.
The TLCP Board and our Faculty Advisor, Professor Alexander Somek would like to congratulate Ms. Lindsey A. Zahn for winning this year’s competition. In addition to being a recipient of the $2000 prize, Ms. Zahn’s winning article Australia Corked its Champagne and So Should We: Enforcing Stricter Protection for Semi-Generic Wines in the United States will be published in Volume 21.
Ms. Zahn is a second year student at Brooklyn Law School where she is the incoming Executive Articles Editor of the Brooklyn Journal of International Law and a research assistant for Professor Claire Kelly. She has a very strong academic interest in wine law and the international regulation thereof.She is a recent graduate of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, where she originally learned about wine law. Additionally, Lindsey is the author of On Reserve: A Wine Law Blog (accessible at http://www.winelawonreserve.com) and will be spending her summer in Champagne, France at the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne for the 2011 Wine and Law Program on Transnational Wine Trade Law.
Ms. Zahn's Note, Australia Corked its Champagne and So Should We: Enforcing Stricter Protection for Semi-Generic Wines in the United States, examines the recently adopted wine trade agreement, The Agreement Between Australia and the European Community on Trade in Wine. The Agreement enforces stricter and more adequate legal protection of European wines and prohibits Australian wine products from using semi-generic names originating in the European Communities (EC), including Champagne. Her Note argues that the United States should adopt a similar trade agreement with the EC to enforce stricter protections on semi-generic wine products in the United States, devises a system of implementation, and examines the implications of adopting such a system.