About the Author

Lindsey A. Zahn is a 3L in law school with a passion for the hospitality industry that furnishes her interest in wine law. She is a recent graduate of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, where she was honored as a Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholar and published in the Cornell Hospitality Reports. Lindsey was also the founder of the first Hospitality Law Society, an executive manager of CHC Hospitality Consultants, and, among others, a teaching assistant for several classes. Presently, Lindsey is the Executive Articles Editor of the Brooklyn Journal of International Law, a research assistant for a professor of the international law department at Brooklyn Law School, and the Vice President of the Brooklyn Law School chapter of the Federalist Society.

Lindsey started On Reserve during the Summer of 2010, after her 1L year in law school, while researching her Note examining the legal overtones of the wine industry. At the time, an online forum for individuals with a professional or academic interest in wine and law did not exist. As an eager researcher, Lindsey enjoyed the idea of creating a blog to track her research theories and experiences during the course of writing her Note. She grew to love blogging, especially with respect to wine and law. Her Note, titled Australia Corked Its Champagne and So Should We: Enforcing Stricter Protections for Semi-Generic Wines in the United States, won the 2010–2011 Trandafir International Business Writing Competition and will be published in the first issue of the twenty-first volume of the Journal of Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems in 2012.

After starting On Reserve, Lindsey’s wine law pathway expanded dramatically. She spent the 2011 summer in France at the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne for the 2011 Wine and Law Program, where she received a University Diploma in Transnational Wine Trade Law and studied under several forerunners of wine law and wine economics. In September 2011, Lindsey traveled to Porto, Portugal courtesy of the Center for Wine Origins to learn about the legal pursuits of the Douro Valley to protect the name Port in the United States. She additionally worked as a wine law and regulatory compliance associate for Lot18, where she sorted through state and federal statutes regulating—just to name a few—the manufacture, sale, shipment, and licensing of alcoholic beverages.

In her spare time, Lindsey loves photography (pieces of which are featured throughout On Reserve), traveling, attending receptions at local art galleries, and, of course, visiting wineries. Although she greatly enjoys the many wineries of her Long Island home, Lindsey is forever indebted to those wineries of the Finger Lakes that helped develop her cultural appreciation for wine.

Education

J.D., Brooklyn Law School, expected 2012
B.S., Cornell University, 2009 (with highest research honors)
Università di Bologna, International & Comparative Law (Summer 2010)
Université de Reims, Diploma in Transnational Wine Trade Law (Summer 2011)

Professional Organizations

Association Internationale des Juristes du Droit de la Vigne et du Vin/International Wine Lawyers Association (AIDV), Student Member
Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Executive Articles Editor
Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassadors Network
Cornell Hotel Society, New York City Chapter
The Federalist Society, Brooklyn Law School Chapter, Vice President
New York Young Republican Club
Wine & Law Program Alumni Association, Founding Member/Membre Fondateur