Theodore Georgopoulos is Director of the Wine & Law Program of the Faculty of Law of Reims, holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in European Wine Law, President of the Georges Chappaz Wine Institute in Champagne and President of AIDV, international association of lawyers in vine and vine law.
Enforced by the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, Prohibition is a unique modern day experiment in regulating alcohol consumption.
It provides insight into the relationship between law and morality and questions the ability of law to replace free will in consumer habits.
In 1848, dozens of families left France, following Etienne Cabet, to found in Nauvoo, Illinois, a utopian community inspired by the book “The trip to Icaria” and based on constitutionalism and comprehensive regulation.
