tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775601543504931076.post6423560152464760347..comments2023-10-23T10:48:21.362-07:00Comments on Red Lion Reports: Coffee and the LawMarie T. Reillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04697870656185092759noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775601543504931076.post-81340279096727153862007-11-16T07:08:00.000-08:002007-11-16T07:08:00.000-08:00Jim: Thanks for this comment. It both tastes gre...Jim: Thanks for this comment. It both tastes great and is less filling.<BR/><BR/>Your proposed seminar would tour the U.S. Constitution using "naught but cases involving liquor, beer, wine, and milk."<BR/>All I recall of my constitutional law course are the milk cases and the mudflap cases. Oh, and that Marbury v. Madison thing . . . .Marie T. Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04697870656185092759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775601543504931076.post-72082940046478031832007-11-15T17:58:00.000-08:002007-11-15T17:58:00.000-08:00Thanks for this, Marie. As Food Law Prof Blog has...Thanks for this, Marie. As <A HREF="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/foodlaw/2007/11/jim-chen-on-tra.html" REL="nofollow">Food Law Prof Blog</A> has kindly indicated, I discussed this very issue some time ago in <A HREF="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=783224" REL="nofollow"><I>Around the World in Eighty Centiliters</I></A>, 15 Minn. J. Int'l L. 11 (2006):<BR/><BR/>The production, marketing, and delivery of beverages are enterprises so vast that fully to comprehend [them] would require an almost universal knowledge ranging from geology, biology, chemistry and medicine to the niceties of the legislative, judicial and administrative processes of government. Queensboro Farm Prods., Inc. v. Wickard, 137 F.2d 969, 975 (2d Cir. 1943). So extensive are the legal complexities at issue that the typical North American coffee service traverses nearly the entire range of allocative and redistributive considerations within the law of trade. A simple carafe of coffee, with cream and sugar on the side, vividly illustrates the tradeoff between comparative advantage and redistributive goals in the formation of trade policies.<BR/><BR/><I>See generally</I> Jim Chen, <A HREF="http://ssrn.com/abstract=936453" REL="nofollow"><I>The Potable Constitution</I></A>, 15 Const. Comment. 1 (1998); <A HREF="http://aglaw.blogspot.com/2006/10/seminar-proposal-potable-constitution.html" REL="nofollow"><I>Seminar Proposal: The Potable Constitution</I></A>.Jim Chenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13981455878475838042noreply@blogger.com