1AC - TRIPs 1NC - Climate Patents DA - Consult WHO CP - India Soft Power DA - Vaccine Diplomacy CP - Case 1AR - All 2NR - Vaccine Diplomacy CP - Case 2AR - Case - CP
Jack Howe Invitational
Semis
Opponent: Perry JA | Judge: Barquin - Channa - Pirisingula
1AC - Cap AFF 1NC - New AFFs Bad - Innovation DA - Case 1AR - All 2NR - New affs bad 2AR - Case - New affs bad
Jack Howe Invitational
6
Opponent: Independent WW | Judge: Albert Cardenas
1AC - Baudrillard 1NC - T-FW - Case 1AR - All 2NR - Baudrillard Reps K - Heg good - case 2AR - Case
Loyola Invitational
1
Opponent: Peninsula EL | Judge: Tej Gedela
1AC - COVID Waivers 1NC - Innovation DA - Dual use PIC - Vaccine diplomacy CP - Biotech DA - Case 1AR - All 2NR - Vaccine Diplomacy CP - Biotech DA - Case 2AR - Case - CP - DA
Loyola Invitational
4
Opponent: Dulles TY | Judge: Joshua St Peter
1AC - Prag util 1NC - Combo shell - Psycho K - Case 1AR - New shell - All 2NR - Combo shell 2AR - Combo shell
Loyola Invitational
6
Opponent: Westwood BJ | Judge: Lena Mizrahi
1AC - Evergreening 1NC - Climate change DA - Bioterror DA - India Soft Power DA - Vaccine Diplomacy CP - Single Payer CP - Case 1AR - Condo - PICs - All 2NR - Single payer CP - Case 2AR - PICs
Loyola Invitational
Doubles
Opponent: Plano NG | Judge: Castillo - Cryan - Torrez
1AC - Evergreening 1NC - Single Payer CP - Bioterror DA - Bioterror PIC - Climate Patents DA - Infrastructure DA - Case 1AR - All 2NR - Single Payer CP - Case 2AR - Case - straight turn on bioterror DA
Loyola Invitational
Octas
Opponent: Evergreen Valley SS | Judge: Le - Kuffour - Bukowsky
1AC - Impossible demands 1NC - T-FW - Case 1AR - All 2NR - Case 2AR - Case
1AC - Vaccine Imperialism 1NC - WTO Bad Disad - Fund global south CP - Climate patents DA - Bioterror PIC - Orphan drugs PIC - Case 1AR - Condo bad - PICs bad - All 2NR - Bioterror PIC 2AR - Condo bad
Loyola Invitational
Semis
Opponent: Sequoia AS | Judge: David - Danielle - Gordon
1AC - Cannabis 1NC - T-reduce - T-medicine - Infrastructure DA - Case 1AR - All 2NR - T-reduce 2AR - T
1AC - COVID Waiver 1NC - Biotech DA - Climate Patents DA - Bioterror PIC - India Soft Power DA - Case 1AR - All 2NR - Climate Patents DA - Case 2AR - All
Meadows Invitational
4
Opponent: Westwood VLo | Judge: Asher Towner
1AC - Biopiracy 1NC - Innovation DA - Swakokpmund Protocol CP - Case 1AR - Condo PICs - All 2NR - Innovation DA - Swakokpmund Protocol CP - Case 2AR - Extinction rhetoric independent issue - condo pics bad
Meadows Invitational
5
Opponent: Marlborough WR | Judge: Truman Le
1AC - COVID 1NC - WTO Bad DA - Climate Patents DA - WHO CP - US Funding CP - India Soft Power DA - Case 1AR - Condo - All 2NR - US Funding CP - India Soft Power DA - Case 2AR - Case - CP - DA
Meadows Invitational
Doubles
Opponent: Valley MM | Judge: Krauss - Jasani - Le
1AC - Asian Mimicry 1NC - T-FW - Cap K - Case 1AR - All 2NR - T-FW - Case 2AR - Case - T-FW
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7/25/21
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Tournament: Any | Round: Finals | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any 0 - Important Stuff 1 - Generics SEPTOCT - September/October Topic NOVDEC - November/December Topic JANFEB - January/February Topic
7/25/21
1 - CT - Baudrillard is sexist
Tournament: Jack Howe Invitational | Round: 6 | Opponent: Independent WW | Judge: Albert Cardenas Baudrillard is so misogynist that he literally advocates for sacrificing women to death—seriously, stop reading the theory of dead French dudes and do better Brodribb 92 (Somer Brodribb teaches feminist theory/politics and women’s social and political thought at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. She has worked with the Yukon Indian Women’s Association to establish an emergency shelter for Native and non-Native women, and as a Canadian contact for the Feminist International Network in Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering (FINRRAGE). She studied in the Feminist focus of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, NOTHING MAT(T)ERS: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism, First published by Spinifex Press, 1992, JKS) Jean Baudrillard blames AND of the male
Tournament: Jack Howe Invitational | Round: Semis | Opponent: Perry JA | Judge: Barquin - Channa - Pirisingula Growth is sustainable, physical limits aren’t absolute, AND resource use is declining now-~--degrowth unleashes global disaster Bailey 18 Ronald; February 16; B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia, member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, citing a compilation of interdisciplinary research; Reason, “Is Degrowth the Only Way to Save the World?” https://reason.com/2018/02/16/is-degrowth-the-only-way-to-save-the-wor; RP Unless us folks AND faster economic growth.
Extinction’s inevitable-~--only growth can sustain colonization and solve extinction Skran 16 Dale Skran is Executive Vice President of the National Space Society and a member of the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Space Development. “Settling space is the only sustainable reason for humans to be in space,” http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2915/1 As robotic and AND motivation for space settlement
Yes Transition Wars and they cause Extinction Nyquist 5 J.R. Nyquist 2-4-2005 “The Political Consequences of a Financial Crash” www.financialsense.com/stormw...2005/0204.html (renowned expert in geopolitics and international relations)Elmer Should the United States AND prevented at all costs
9/22/21
1 - CT - Hapticality Bad
Tournament: Meadows Invitational | Round: Octas | Opponent: Homestead SL | Judge: Barquin - Ribera - Astacio Their re-tooling of Communication gets coopted within the university – this ev is unbelievably fire Webb, Darren. "Bolt-holes and breathing spaces in the system: On forms of academic resistance (or, can the university be a site of utopian possibility?)." Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 40.2 (2018): 96-118. (Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Sheffield)Elmer It is easy AND one at that
The 1AC’s demand for the haptic is the very invasion of captive space of blackness which uniquely traps black women between the two-sided force of public discipline and private sexual coercion. Spillers 17, Hortense. "Shades of Intimacy: Women in the Time of Revolution." NOTE – This was originally transcribed and cut by Greg Zoda, Presentation at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, February 16 (2017). (Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, PhD in English from Brandeis University)Elmer This weave of AND seeks to create
11/1/21
1 - CT - Heg Good
Tournament: Jack Howe Invitational | Round: 6 | Opponent: Independent WW | Judge: Albert Cardenas Nuanced debates about the necessity of internationalism lock in deep engagement-~--the public is primed to ignore the benefits of great-power peace in favor of shallow indictments of its cost. Brands 18 Hal, Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments." American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump." Page 21-23 Fifth and finally AND a quarter century
Primacy solves arms races, land grabs, rogue states, and great power war – reject old defense that ignores emerging instability and compounding risk Brands 18 Hal, Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments." American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump." Page 129-133 Since World War AND a quarter century
Education about military strategy is good – it’s key to military effectiveness and humanitarian missions that outweigh. Toronto 15 Dr. Nathan W. Toronto is an associate professor of Strategy and Security Studies at the United Arab Emirates National Defense College. 5/26. "Does Military Education Matter?" https://www.e-ir.info/2015/05/26/does-military-education-matter/ Military education is AND for military success
9/22/21
1 - CT - Humanism Good
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: Octas | Opponent: Evergreen Valley SS | Judge: Le - Kuffour - Bukowsky Antiblackness is not ontological - 1 Theoretically – Heirarchies are malleable and the result of specific policy choices with material incentives Harari 15 Yuval Noah Harari, Israeli historian and a tenured professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in World History, Doctorate in Philosophy from Oxford University, and an acclaimed author whose first book, Sapiens, was an international bestseller that received lavish praise by figures ranging from Barack Obama to Bill Gates, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, tr. by Yuval Harari with help from John Purcell and Haim Watzman, HarperCollins: Broadway, NY, 2015, p. 133-144 UNDERSTANDING HUMAN HISTORY AND real – social structures
2 Materially – A confluence of statistical factors prove racial progress is possible and occurring. Hochschild 17 (Jennifer L. Hochschild , Professor of Government, African and African American Studies, and the Chair of the Department of Government (Harvard University), Chair in American Law and Governance at the Library of Congress, President of the American Political Science Association, “Left Pessimism and Political Science,” Perspectives on Politics, Volume 15, Issue 1, March 15th, p. 6-19, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592716004102modified to allow for more humanizing frames) Is Pessimism the AND body mass index
Anti-Blackness isn’t ontological, is an ahistorical reading of the Black Radical Tradition, and their theory actively forecloses the capacity for revolutionary change. Brown 19 Marcus Brown 8-24-2019 https://content.redvoice.news/bad-faith-and-afropessimism-notes-toward-a-debate/ (PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University)Elmer As should by AND of decolonizing humanity
Blackness isn’t historically calcified and their reading runs counter to the Black radical tradition Kelley 17 Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA (Robin D.G., “Robin D.G. Kelley and Fred Moten In Conversation,” transcribed from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP-2F9MXjRE, 1:57:36-2:02:56, dml) KELLEY: Um, Fred AND satisfactory, but yeah
Humanism that’s oriented “to praxis in this world” is good – it’s not “all lives matter” but necessary to cultivate black endurance. Pithouse 16 Richard PITHOUSE, senior researcher, programme coordinator and supervisor at the Unit for Humanities at Rhodes University, 16 “Frantz Fanon: Philosophy, Praxis, and the Occult Zone,” Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Vol. XXIV, No 1, 2016, p. 116-138, http://www.jffp.org/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/viewFile/761/723 Racism, as ideology AND history of waste
Externally, environmental sustainability – extinction. David Victor 19, professor of international relations at the School of Global Policy and Strategy and director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation, Co-Chair of the Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate, 1/10/19, “How artificial intelligence will affect the future of energy and climate,” https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-artificial-intelligence-will-affect-the-future-of-energy-and-climate/ HOW AI WILL IMPROVE AND climate impacts response
11/1/21
1 - FW - Util
Tournament: Jack Howe Invitational | Round: Octas | Opponent: Solebury LM | Judge: Towner - Agler - Clark-Villanueva Ethics begin a posteriori.
Knowledge is based on experience – I wouldn’t know 2+2=4 without experience of objects nor the color red without some experience of color. We can’t obtain evidence of goodness without experience. 2. Indifference – Even if there are apriori moral truths, I can choose to ignore them. Cognition is binding – if I put my hand on a hot stove, I can’t turn off my natural aversion to it. Independently, pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses – robust neuroscience. Blum et al. 18 Kenneth Blum, 1Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton VA Medical Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA 2Department of Psychiatry, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA 5Department of Precision Medicine, Geneus Health LLC, San Antonio, TX, USA 6Department of Addiction Research and Therapy, Nupathways Inc., Innsbrook, MO, USA 7Department of Clinical Neurology, Path Foundation, New York, NY, USA 8Division of Neuroscience-Based Addiction Therapy, The Shores Treatment and Recovery Center, Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA 9Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 10Division of Addiction Research, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC. North Kingston, RI, USA 11Victory Nutrition International, Lederach, PA., USA 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA, Marjorie Gondré-Lewis, 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA 13Departments of Anatomy and Psychiatry, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC US, Bruce Steinberg, 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA, Igor Elman, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, David Baron, 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Edward J Modestino, 14Department of Psychology, Curry College, Milton, MA, USA, Rajendra D Badgaiyan, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, Mark S Gold 16Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, “Our evolved unique pleasure circuit makes humans different from apes: Reconsideration of data derived from animal studies”, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 28 February 2018, accessed: 19 August 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446569/, R.S. Pleasure is not only AND addiction or RDS.
Thus, the standard is maximizing expected well-being or act hedonistic util. Prefer additionally –
1 Death is bad and outweighs – a) agents can’t act if they fear for their bodily security which constrains every ethical theory, b) it destroys the subject itself – kills any ability to achieve value in ethics since life is a prerequisite which means it’s a side constraint since we can’t reach the end goal of ethics without life 2 Actor spec—governments must use util because they don’t have intentions and are constantly dealing with tradeoffs—outweighs since different agents have different obligations—takes out calc indicts since they are empirically denied.
Extinction first – 1 – Forecloses future improvement – we can never improve society because our impact is irreversible 2 – Turns suffering – mass death causes suffering because people can’t get access to resources and basic necessities 3 – Moral obligation – allowing people to die is unethical and should be prevented because it creates ethics towards other people 4 – Objectivity – body count is the most objective way to calculate impacts because comparing suffering is unethical 5 – Moral uncertainty – if we’re unsure about which interpretation of the world is true – we ought to preserve the world to keep debating about it
9/20/21
1 - K - Capitalism
Tournament: Meadows Invitational | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Valley MM | Judge: Krauss - Jasani - Le Debate is a massive network of scholars, activists, policymakers, all of whom can and should orient their energy toward the production of a better world – the presumption that we should not challenge structures on the level of scope and scale with the resources that debate offers us is an explicit concession to fascism. Additionally, fragmented politics generate disempowerment as survival-based praxis becomes self-employing labor that becomes weaponized under neoliberalism against those who cannot survive or be anarchic well enough. Hester 17 (Helen Hester is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the University of West London. Her research interests include technofeminism, sexuality studies, and theories of social reproduction. She is a member of the international feminist collective Laboria Cuboniks. “Promethean Labors and Domestic Realism” 25 September 2017 http://www.e-flux.com/architecture/artificial-labor/140680/promethean-labors-and-domestic-realism/ rvs) There has been AND of re/visionary processes
Capitalism causes war, violence, environmental destruction and extinction. Robinson 18 (William I., Prof. of Sociology, Global and International Studies, and Latin American Studies, @ UC-Santa Barbara, “Accumulation Crisis and Global Police State” Critical Sociology) RE Each major episode AND global police state
Thus the alternative is to affirm the model of the Communist Party – only democratic centralist dual power organizing can provide effective accountability mechanisms to correct unproductive tendencies, educate and mobilize marginalized communities, and connect local struggles to a movement for international liberation. Escalante 18 (Alyson Escalante, you should totally read her work for non-debate reasons, Marxist-Leninist, Materialist Feminist and Anti-Imperialist activist. “PARTY ORGANIZING IN THE 21ST CENTURY” September 21st, 2018 https://theforgenews.org/2018/09/21/party-organizing-in-the-21st-century/ rvs) I would argue AND movement can succeed
10/31/21
1 - K - Psychoanalysis
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 4 | Opponent: Dulles TY | Judge: Joshua St Peter The subject is alienated when it articulates its desires – incomplete signifiers structure the emergence of subjectivity and produce repetitive drives to fill the lack that justify coercive violence. Matheson 15 Calum Matheson, PhD, 2015, “Desired Ground Zeroes: Nuclear Imagination and the Death Drive,” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Calum Matheson is author of Desiring the Bomb: Communication, Psychoanalysis, and the Atomic Age (University of Alabama). He is a former high school debater. His research focuses on intersections of rhetoric, media, and theories of psychoanalysis and deconstruction. His current work focuses on right-wing political extremism, conspiracy thinking, and Lacanian concepts of anxiety and psychosis. He has also published work on argument, history of rhetoric, and games. Dr. Matheson is a former debate coach at Harvard University and a current candidate at the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center., https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/dissertations/6682x4537, SJBE The Real Jacques AND like happy children
The 1AC is an ideological fantasy constructed by relentless planning at the expense of scapegoated identities, all for recognition from the Other in an attempt to fill the lack. Gunder 05 Michael Gunder, 2005, “The Production of Desirous Space: Mere Fantasies of the Utopian City?” Planning Theory 2005 4: 173, DOI: 10.1177/1473095205054604, all brackets were in the original text, SJBE Jouissance is one AND our lived space
The repetition of drives makes life the enemy and causes extinction Themi 08 (Tim, Prof @ Deakin U, “How Lacan’s Ethics Might Improve Our Understanding of Nietzsche’s Critique of Platonism: The Neurosis and Nihilism of a ‘Life’ Against Life,” Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 4.1-2, 2008) SJBE, recut from Harvard BoSu For to circle AND accidentally finishes us
Vote negative to embrace the lack – this requires being open to the anxiety that occurs from an encounter with the other and breaks down fantasy and drives. McGowan 13 Todd McGowan, 2013, “Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis,” University of Nebraska Press/Lincoln and London, SJBE The alternative — the AND the real other
9/5/21
1 - Theory - New affs bad
Tournament: Jack Howe Invitational | Round: Semis | Opponent: Perry JA | Judge: Barquin - Channa - Pirisingula Interpretation: the aff must disclose their case 30 minutes before the round Violation – they didn’t Standards: 1 Reciprocity- Absent disclosure of broken positions we go into the round in the dark since we don’t know what generic arguments you go for commonly and what kinds of specific positions you have read which means we lose a lot of pre round and pre-tournament prep- but you can prep us out easily since I disclose everything which means you are at a structural advantage going into the round. 2 Quality engagement – aff disclosure discourages cheap shot affs. If the aff isn't inherent or easily defeated by 20 minutes of research, the case should lose—this will answer the 1ar's claim about innovation—with 30 minutes of prep, there's still an incentive to find a new strategic, well justified aff, but no incentive to cut a horrible, incoherent aff that the neg can't check against the broader literature. 3 Norm setting outweighs in round abuse – a. longevity b. constitutive of theory Every reason fairness is a voter is a reason you can’t read substantive take-outs to the shell since it precludes your evaluation of them. Edu- funded ny schools 1 No RVIs: a. Chills theory – If people know they might lose for reading theory, it will disincentivize them. b. You don’t get to win by being fair. c. Theory Baiting – good theory debaters will bait people into reading theory against certain cases 2 Use competing interpretations: a. Reasonability causes a race to the bottom with testing the limit of it b. Finding the best possible interp makes debate have higher quality arguments c. Judge intervention shouldn’t be allowed bc it produces bias 3 Drop the debater: Drop the debater for being abusive – we can’t restart the round from the 1AC and I’m skewed for the rest of the debate.
9/22/21
JanFeb - CP - ILAW Regulation
Tournament: College Prep | Round: 1 | Opponent: Monta Vista RD | Judge: Joanne Park Counterplan text: The Committee on the Peaceful use of Outer Space ought to - establish an application system for property rights on celestial bodies. Applications and approval of property rights should be granted upon the condition of - open disclosure of data gathered in the exploration of a celestial body - Applications must be publicly announced - Property Rights will be made tradeable between private entities - Property Rights will be set to expire on the conclusion of a successful extraction mission - Private Entities will only be allowed one property right grant per celestial body and cannot have more than one grant at a time - Ban the militarization of outer space The counterplan establishes international norms for safe extraction of resources on celestial bodies while increasing RandD in outer space. Steffen 21 Olaf Steffen, Olaf is a scientist at the Institute of Composite Structures and Adaptive Sytems at the German Aerospace Center. 12-2-2021, "Explore to Exploit: A Data-Centred Approach to Space Mining Regulation," Institute of Composite Structures and Adaptive Systems, German Aerospace Center, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265964621000515 accessed 12/12/21 Adam 4. The data-centred approach AND mass through mining.
Space mining fails now due to profitability and unsafe tech which only the cp solves Steffen 21 Olaf Steffen, Olaf is a scientist at the Institute of Composite Structures and Adaptive Sytems at the German Aerospace Center. 12-2-2021, "Explore to Exploit: A Data-Centred Approach to Space Mining Regulation," Institute of Composite Structures and Adaptive Systems, German Aerospace Center, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265964621000515 accessed 12/12/21 Adam The data-driven mechanism AND positions of influence
Unregulated mining of asteroids triggers space conflicts Thompson ’16 Clive, Writer for Wired, “Space Mining Could Set Off a Star War”, Wired, 01/14/2016, https://www.wired.com/2016/01/clive-thompson-11/ SPACE IS LOUSY with profits. Consider the asteroid Ryugu: It’s made of so many tons of nickel, iron, cobalt, and water, it’s worth an estimated $95 billion. Venture into deeper space AND cobalt in the balance
That goes nuclear Grego ’18 Laura, Senior Scientist in the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, PhD in Experimental Physics at the California Institute of Technology, Space and Crisis Stability, Union of Concerned Scientists, 3-19-18, https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/7804-grego-space-and-crisis-stabilitypdf Why space is AND to different weapons
12/18/21
JanFeb - DA - Space Deterrence
Tournament: College Prep | Round: 1 | Opponent: Monta Vista RD | Judge: Joanne Park Space Commercialization is key to Space Deterrence – Commercial Flexibility is key to deterrence by denial. Klein 19, John J. Understanding space strategy: the art of war in space. Routledge, 2019. (a Senior Fellow and Strategist at Falcon Research, Inc. and Adjunct Professor at George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute)Elmer Recent U.S. space AND consequent targeting efforts
Space Deterrence Breakdowns causes War and Extinction. Parker 17 Clifton Parker 1-24-2017 “Deterrence in space key to U.S. security” https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/news/deterrence-space-key-us-security (Policy Analyst at the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation)Elmer Space is more AND in the atmosphere
12/18/21
JanFeb - DA - Xi Lashout
Tournament: College Prep | Round: 3 | Opponent: Archbishop Mitty AA | Judge: Rex Evans Xi’s regime is stable now, but its success depends on strong growth and private sector development. Mitter and Johnson 21 Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, Rana Mitter is a professor of the history and politics of modern China at Oxford. Elsbeth Johnson, formerly the strategy director for Prudential PLC’s Asian business, is a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the founder of SystemShift, a consulting firm. May-June 2021, "What the West Gets Wrong About China," Harvard Business Review, https://hbr.org/2021/05/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-china accessed 12/14/21 Adam In China, however AND in scientific research
Xi has committed to the commercial space industry as the linchpin of China’s rise – the plan is seen as a complete 180 Patel 21 Neel V. Patel, Neel is a space reporter for MIT Technology Review. 1-21-2021, "China’s surging private space industry is out to challenge the US," MIT Technology Review, https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/21/1016513/china-private-commercial-space-industry-dominance/ accessed 12/14/21 Adam Until recently, China’s AND expand,” he says
Shifts in regime perception threatens CCP’s legitimacy from nationalist hardliners Weiss 19 Jessica Weiss 1-29-2019 “Authoritarian Audiences, Rhetoric, and Propaganda in International Crises: Evidence from China” http://www.jessicachenweiss.com/uploads/3/0/6/3/30636001/19-01-24-elite-statements-isq-ca.pdf (Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University)Elmer Public support—or AND the U.S. government.”
Xi will launch diversionary war to domestic backlash – escalates in multiple hotspots Norris 17, William J. Geostrategic Implications of China’s Twin Economic Challenges. CFR Discussion Paper, 2017. (Associate professor of Chinese foreign and security policy at Texas AandM University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service)Elmer Populist pressures might AND toward domestic consumption.
US–China war goes nuclear – crisis mis-management ensures conventional escalation - extinction Kulacki 20 Dr. Gregory Kulacki focuses on cross-cultural communication between the United States and China on nuclear and space arms control and is the China Project Manager for the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, 2020. Would China Use Nuclear Weapons First In A War With The United States?, Thediplomat.com, https://thediplomat.com/2020/04/would-china-use-nuclear-weapons-first-in-a-war-with-the-united-states/ srey Admiral Charles A AND far less likely.
12/18/21
JanFeb - T - Appropriation
Tournament: College Prep | Round: 1 | Opponent: Monta Vista RD | Judge: Joanne Park Interpretation: “Appropriation of outer space” by private entities refers to the exercise of exclusive control of space. TIMOTHY JUSTIN TRAPP, JD Candidate @ UIUC Law, ’13, TAKING UP SPACE BY ANY OTHER MEANS: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE NONAPPROPRIATION ARTICLE OF THE OUTER SPACE TREATY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW Vol. 2013 No. 4 The issues presented AND through different means
Violation: Standards: 1 Limits and ground: the aff interpretation explodes the topic to allow any aff about extracting resources which structurally alters the neg research burden because there’s a qualitative difference between appropriation of outer space and of resources. That alters neg ground because it means the aff can defend trivial middle grounds that go beyond just exclusive appropriation unbalancing the topic. 2 Precision: Proper construction of Article XII OST provides rights to property in outer space, not appropriation of outer space. Construction of A. XII OST to provide in-situ property rights is absurd.
Michelle L.D. Hanlon, LLM Air and Space Law @ McGill, JD magna cum laude Georgetown Law Center, BA Political Science @ Yale, ‘18, "The Space Review: Our fear of “heritage” imperils our future," No Publication, https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3450/1 Nor are the AND of the law?
Precision outweighs—determines what we prepare for which controls the internal link to any pragmatic benefits of the activity No RVIs: a. Chills theory – If people know they might lose for reading theory, it will disincentivize them. b. You don’t get to win by being fair. c. Theory Baiting – good theory debaters will bait people into reading theory against certain cases. T link turns 1AR theory – proves the aff forced me to be abusive Use competing interpretations: a. Reasonability causes a race to the bottom with testing the limit of it b. Judge intervention shouldn’t be allowed bc it produces bias c. Uniquely, use competing interps on T – you can’t be reasonably topical Drop the debater: for being abusive – we can’t restart the round from the 1AC and I’m skewed for the rest of the debate.
12/18/21
SeptOct - CP - Consult WHO
Tournament: Jack Howe Invitational | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Samammish LW | Judge: Barquin - Krause - Yerraguntala Counterplan Text – Member states of the World Trade Organization ought to consult the World Health Organization on whether or not to do the Plan. The World Health Organization ought to publicly declare that their decision on the Plan will represent their future decisions on all intellectual property protections on medicines. The Plan’s unilateral action by the WTO on medical IP undermines WHO legitimacy – forcing a perception of WHO action against Patents is key to re-assert it – they say yes. Rimmer 4, Matthew. "The race to patent the SARS virus: the TRIPS agreement and access to essential medicines." Melbourne Journal of International Law 5.2 (2004): 335-374. https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/1681117/Rimmer.pdf (BA (Hons), LLB (Hons) (Australian National University), PhD (New South Wales); Lecturer at ACIPA, the Faculty of Law, The Australian National University)SidK + Elmer The WHO has AND Human Rights Watch
Right to Health solves Nationalist Populism. Friedman 17 Eric Friedman March 2017 “New WHO Leader Will Need Human Rights to Counter Nationalistic Populism” https://www.hhrjournal.org/2017/03/new-who-leader-will-need-human-rights-to-counter-populism/ (JD, Project Leader of the Platform for a Framework Convention on Global Health at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC)Elmer The need for AND of that endeavor.
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Peninsula EL | Judge: Tej Gedela Counterplan Text: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to 1 reduce intellectual property protections for COVID-19 medicines except for dual-use biotechnologies and 2 offer a 3 year patent extension on dual use biotechnologies conditioned on accompanying countermeasures. The counterplan incentivizes development into countermeasures and removes terrorist access to biotechnologies. Million-Perez, H. (2016). Addressing duel-use technology in an age of bioterrorism: Patent extensions to inspire companies making duel use technology to create accompanying countermeasures. AIPLA Quarterly Journal, 44(3), 387-436. Rachael Million-Perez is an associate with Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper and Scinto and a graduate of the George Washington University Law School. sid Although previous congressional AND resources and expertise
9/4/21
SeptOct - CP - Fund Global South
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Peninsula RM | Judge: Mizrahi -Dosche - Stuckert CP: The United States of America, Russian Federation, and People's Republic of China ought to put $20 trillion into a global pool and divide that between the Global South. Solves the aff – it sets up manufacturing in the global south that distributes vaccines to decrease inequality and correct for inequality, while also correcting for systems of inequality stemming from financial issues.
9/6/21
SeptOct - CP - Orphan PIC
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Peninsula RM | Judge: Mizrahi -Dosche - Stuckert Counterplan Text - Resolved: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to - eliminate intellectual property protections for medicines except for orphan drugs. - prioritize distribution of orphan drugs to the Global South. Orphan drug legislation is specifically key to stimulate research into rare diseases Horgan et. al 20 D, Moss B, Boccia S, Genuardi M, Gajewski M, Capurso G, Fenaux P, Gulbis B, Pellegrini M, Mañú Pereira M, M, Gutiérrez Valle V, Gutiérrez Ibarluzea I, Kent A, Cattaneo I, Jagielska B, Belina I, Tumiene B, Ward A, Papaluca M: Time for Change? The Why, What and How of Promoting Innovation to Tackle Rare Diseases – Is It Time to Update the EU’s Orphan Regulation? And if so, What Should be Changed? Biomed Hub 2020;5:1-11. doi: 10.1159/000509272 https://www.karger.com/Article/Fulltext/509272#sid The European Union’s AND field of innovation
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 6 | Opponent: Westwood BJ | Judge: Lena Mizrahi Text – States ought to individually domestically establish single-payer national health insurance. Solves evergreening and drug prices while avoiding our innovation turns. Narayanan 19 Srivats Narayanan 8-15-2019 "Medicare for All and Evergreening" https://medium.com/@srivats.narayanan/medicare-for-all-and-evergreening-cb84c930e0ea (UMKC School of Medicine)Elmer Drug companies rake AND of medical innovation
9/5/21
SeptOct - CP - Swakokpmund Protocol
Tournament: Meadows Invitational | Round: 4 | Opponent: Westwood VLo | Judge: Asher Towner We affirm that the member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to: - Modify Intellectual Property Protection of Indigenous Knowledge through implementation of a Sui Generis Intellectual Property Regime that reflects consistent consultation with local communities and traditional communities. - Mandate widespread ratification, application, and the enforcement of the Swakokpmund Protocol ensuring that local communities and traditional communities are guaranteed continued use of Traditional Medical Knowledge in the traditional context without any legal implication and without licenses and subject to pre-determined sharing of benefits. - Implement an opt-in opt-out system where Indigenous Groups are given the right to refuse to relinquish control of Intellectual Property to non-Indigenous Intellectual Property Holders over Traditional Knowledge. - Mandate a disclosure of origin requirement as a pre-requisite of Intellectual Property Protection applications. The Swakokpmund Protocol is an Intellectual Property Regime that solves exploitation and protects Traditional Knowledge and People while still allowing usage of Intellectual Property in Medical Innovation – Sua Generis emphasis of collective rights solves issues with IPRs. Sinkala 17, Ruth M. "Protection of Traditional Medical Knowledge in the Patent System: Is There Room?." (2017). (Master Programme in Intellectual Property Law at University of Uppselett)SidK 4.2 The Swakopmund Protocol AND benefit sharing standards.
Disclosure of Origin ensures that original TMK owners are able to get compensation and are protected from exploitation. Sinkala 17, Ruth M. "Protection of Traditional Medical Knowledge in the Patent System: Is There Room?." (2017). (Master Programme in Intellectual Property Law at University of Uppselett)SidK Disclosure Disclosure is AND to complete loss
10/30/21
SeptOct - CP - US Funding
Tournament: Meadows Invitational | Round: 5 | Opponent: Marlborough WR | Judge: Truman Le Text – the United States ought to - invest $25 billion into 25 production lines dedicated solely to COVID-19 vaccines to boost global vaccine production managed by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. - pre-order and distribute 8 billion doses of COVID vaccines using an equitable distribution framework prioritizing developing countries in the Global South. The CP solves the entirety of the case and does it faster – answers the 2 points they made for why it wouldn’t solve because it focuses on the global south Stankiewicz 21 Mike Stankiewicz 5-6-2021"Opinion: For just $25 billion, the U.S. could jump-start a project to quickly vaccinate the entire world against COVID" https://www.marketwatch.com/story/for-just-25-billion-the-u-s-could-jump-start-a-project-to-quickly-vaccinate-the-entire-world-against-covid-11614898552 (a press officer in Public Citizen's communication's department, where he focuses on legislative policy and health-orientated advocacy)Elmer Despite wealthy countries AND to do so
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Peninsula EL | Judge: Tej Gedela CP Text – The United States federal government ought to establish a global leadership role in production and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments by engaging in talks with NATO and the G-7 and expanding support of COVAX including at minimum, vaccinating one billion people around the globe by November 2021 and encourage public-private partnerships and facilitate overseas licensing agreements without reducing intellectual property rights. The CP solves vaccine distribution and re-vitalizes American influence BUT US leadership is key. Gayle et Al 21 Helene Gayle, Gordon LaForge, and Anne-Marie Slaughter 3-19-2021 "American Can-and Should-Vaccinate the World" https://archive.is/wtVC2#selection-1369.0-1369.54 (Helene D. Gayle, MD, MPH, has been president and CEO of The Chicago Community Trust, one of the nation’s oldest and largest community foundations, since October 2017. Under her leadership, the Trust has adopted a new strategic focus on closing the racial and ethnic wealth gap in the Chicago region. For almost a decade, Dr. Gayle was president and CEO of CARE, a leading international humanitarian organization. An expert on global development, humanitarian, and health issues, she spent 20 years with the Centers for Disease Control, working primarily on HIV/AIDS.)Elmer After a virtual AND protecting the world.
9/4/21
SeptOct - CP - WHO
Tournament: Meadows Invitational | Round: 5 | Opponent: Marlborough WR | Judge: Truman Le Counterplan Text: - The World Health Organization ought to reduce Intellectual Property Protections for COVID-19 Medicines - The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to accede to the World Health Organization’s jurisdiction to set norms for pharmaceutical intellectual property. Ceding to the WTO on medical IP undermines WHO legitimacy. Rimmer 4, Matthew. "The race to patent the SARS virus: the TRIPS agreement and access to essential medicines." Melbourne Journal of International Law 5.2 (2004): 335-374. https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/1681117/Rimmer.pdf (BA (Hons), LLB (Hons) (Australian National University), PhD (New South Wales); Lecturer at ACIPA, the Faculty of Law, The Australian National University)SidK + Elmer The WHO has AND new infectious diseases
WHO Cred key to Global Right to Health – medicine access is critical. - Note the Bottom Paragraph is at the bottom of the PDF – I put a paragraph break to indicate it as such – no words are missing. Bluestone 3, Ken. "Strengthening WHO's position should be a priority for the new Director-General." The Lancet 361.9351 (2003): 2. (Senior Policy Adviser, Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO))Elmer To meet these AND Human Rights Watch
Right to Health solves Nationalist Populism. Friedman 17 Eric Friedman March 2017 “New WHO Leader Will Need Human Rights to Counter Nationalistic Populism” https://www.hhrjournal.org/2017/03/new-who-leader-will-need-human-rights-to-counter-populism/ (JD, Project Leader of the Platform for a Framework Convention on Global Health at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC)Elmer The need for AND of that endeavor
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Peninsula EL | Judge: Tej Gedela US dominance is secured in biotech now, but China’s closing the gap fast – that allows geopolitical and economic advantages Scott Moore 2020 (Director of the Penn Global China Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, Moore was a Young Professional and Water Resources Management Specialist at the World Bank Group, and Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Officer for China at the U.S.) “China’s Role In The Global Biotechnology Sector And Implications For U.S. Policy” https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/FP_20200427_china_biotechnology_moore.pdf TDI Recut NChu EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Even AND for U.S. policy
China will convert biotechnology gains to military advantages, undermining US primacy – specifically true in the context of vaccines Mercy A. Kuo 2017 (Executive Vice President at Pamir Consulting.) “The Great US-China Biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence Race” https://thediplomat.com/2017/08/the-great-us-china-biotechnology-and-artificial-intelligence-race/ TDI Recut NChu Trans-Pacific View AND of specific populations
Maintenance of the US-led LIO is key to reduce a host of existential threats – establishes great-power peace. Brands 18. (Hal Brands is a Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. “America’s Global Order Is Worth Fighting For, Bloomberg Opinion, Politics and Policy,” August 14, 2018, Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-08-14/america-s-global-order-is-worth-fighting-for TDI Recut NChu The first argument AND decades to come
9/4/21
SeptOct - DA - Bioterror
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Peninsula EL | Judge: Tej Gedela Vulnerabilities exposed by COVID have invigorated availability and interest in bioterror, but technical challenges remain as barriers to acquisition. Koblentz and Kiesel 7/14 Gregory D. Koblentz (Deputy Director of the Biodefense Graduate Program and Assistant Professor of Government and Politics in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University) and Stevie Kiesel (Biodefense PhD Student, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University). “The COVID-19 Pandemic: Catalyst or Complication for Bioterrorism?”. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Published online 14 Jul 2021. Accessed 7/22/21. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1057610X.2021.1944023?journalCode=uter20Xu Since COVID-19 was AND of biological threats
IP protections are the only limit on proliferating dual-use biotech – losing patents puts financial pressure on companies to outsource RandD, which skyrockets bioterror acquisition. Finlay 10 Brian Finlay (President and Chief Executive Officer of the Stimson Center, M.A. from the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, a graduate diploma from the School of Advanced International Studies, the Johns Hopkins University and an honors B.A. from Western University in Canada). “The Bioterror Pipeline: Big Pharma, Patent Expirations, and New Challenges to Global Security”. The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs. Vol. 34, No. 2 (Summer 2010), pp. 51-64. https://www.jstor.org/stable/45289504?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contentsXu Until recently, these AND for global security
Bioterrorism causes Extinction – overcomes any conventional defense. Walsh 19, Bryan. End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World. Hachette Books, 2019. (Future Correspondent for Axios, Editor of the Science and Technology Publication OneZero, Former Senior and International Editor at Time Magazine, BA from Princeton University)Elmer I’ve lived through AND hasn’t happened yet
9/4/21
SeptOct - DA - Climate Change
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 6 | Opponent: Westwood BJ | Judge: Lena Mizrahi Climate Patents and Innovation high now and solving Warming but patent waivers set a dangerous precedent for appropriations - the mere threat is sufficient is enough to kill investment. Brand 5-26, Melissa. “Trips Ip Waiver Could Establish Dangerous Precedent for Climate Change and Other Biotech Sectors.” IPWatchdog.com | Patents and Patent Law, 26 May 2021, www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/05/26/trips-ip-waiver-establish-dangerous-precedent-climate-change-biotech-sectors/id=133964/. sid The biotech industry AND and required levels
Climate change destroys the world. Specktor 19 Brandon writes about the science of everyday life for Live Science, and previously for Reader's Digest magazine, where he served as an editor for five years 6-4-2019, "Human Civilization Will Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now, New Paper Claims," livescience, https://www.livescience.com/65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html Justin The current climate AND we know it
9/5/21
SeptOct - DA - India Soft Power
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 6 | Opponent: Westwood BJ | Judge: Lena Mizrahi India’s COVID crisis has killed Modi’s appetite for international adventurism, but increasing vaccine production reverses the trend. Singh ’21 (Sushant; senior fellow with the Centre for Policy Research in India; 5-3-2021; “The End of Modi’s Global Dreams”; Foreign Policy; https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/03/india-vishwaguru-modi-second-wave-soft-power-self-sufficiency/; Accessed: 8-27-2021) India’s prime minister AND in the talks
Revitalized risk-taking risks Indo-Pak confrontations – those go nuclear. Roblin ‘20 Sebastien; university instructor for the Peace Corps in China, master’s degree in conflict resolution from Georgetown University; 3-16-2020; "Yes a Pakistani-Indian Nuclear War Would Kill People All Over the Planet"; National Interest; https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/yes-pakistani-indian-nuclear-war-would-kill-people-all-over-planet-133642; accessed 3-17-2020 Such assessments are AND decimating fishing yields
9/5/21
SeptOct - DA - Infrastructure
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Plano NG | Judge: Castillo - Cryan - Torrez Biden’s infrastructure bill will pass through reconciliation but absolute Dem Unity is key. - Turns Structural Violence Pramuk and Franck 8-25 Jacob Pramuk and Thomas Franck 8-25-2021 "Here’s what happens next as Democrats try to pass Biden’s multitrillion-dollar economic plans" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/25/what-happens-next-with-biden-infrastructure-budget-bills-in-congress.html (Staff Reporter at CNBC)Elmer WASHINGTON — House Democrats AND of fueling inflation
Pharma backlashes to the Plan – they’re aggressive lobbyists and will do anything to preserve patent rights. - Turns Case – Waters down the Plan due to lobbying - Optional Card – still thinking on if its necessary note from Elmer Huetteman 19 Emmarie Huetteman 2-26-2019 “Senators Who Led Pharma-Friendly Patent Reform Also Prime Targets For Pharma Cash” https://khn.org/news/senators-who-led-pharma-friendly-patent-reform-also-prime-targets-for-pharma-cash/ (former NYT Congressional correspondent with an MA in public affairs reporting from Northwestern University’s Medill School)Elmer Early last year, AND on the bill
They choose Infrastructure as backlash – they bill costs Pharma millions – lobbyists can derail the Agenda. Brennan 8-2 Zachary Brennan 8-2-2021 "How the biopharma industry is helping to pay for the bipartisan infrastructure bill" https://endpts.com/how-the-biopharma-industry-is-helping-to-pay-for-the-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill/ (Senior Editor at Endpoint News)Elmer Senators on Sunday AND side,” Lawson said
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Peninsula EL | Judge: Tej Gedela Pharma drug innovation is high now – eliminating patent protections collapses incentives. The Economist 20 5-23-2020 "Drug innovation is back in fashion" https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/05/23/drug-innovation-is-back-in-fashion (The Economist is an international weekly newspaper printed in magazine-format and published digitally that focuses on current affairs, international business, politics, and technology.)Elmer For much of AND public health, too
Best analysis confirms our Link – strong IP protection are the only incentive for drug innovation. - Answers Evergreening/Me-Too Drugs Stevens and Ezell 20 Philip Stevens and Stephen Ezell 2-3-2020 "Delinkage Debunked: Why Replacing Patents With Prizes for Drug Development Won’t Work" https://itif.org/publications/2020/02/03/delinkage-debunked-why-replacing-patents-prizes-drug-development-wont-work (Philip founded Geneva Network in 2015. His main research interests are the intersection of intellectual property, trade, and health policy. Formerly he was an official at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, where he worked in its Global Challenges Division on a range of IP and health issues. Prior to his time with WIPO, Philip worked as director of policy for International Policy Network, a UK-based think tank, as well as holding research positions with the Adam Smith Institute and Reform, both in London. He has also worked as a political risk consultant and a management consultant. He is a regular columnist in a wide range of international newspapers and has published a number of academic studies. He holds degrees from the London School of Economics and Durham University (UK).)Elmer The Current System Has AND novel biomedical innovation
Pharma Innovation prevents Extinction – checks new diseases. Engelhardt 8, H. Tristram. Innovation and the pharmaceutical industry: critical reflections on the virtues of profit. M and M Scrivener Press, 2008 (doctorate in philosophy (University of Texas at Austin), M.D. (Tulane University), professor of philosophy (Rice University), and professor emeritus at Baylor College of Medicine) Many are suspicious AND medical-device industries
9/4/21
SeptOct - DA - Innovation v Biopiracy
Tournament: Meadows Invitational | Round: 4 | Opponent: Westwood VLo | Judge: Asher Towner Strong current IP guarantees causes massive Pharma innovation. Stevens and Ezell 20 Philip Stevens and Stephen Ezell 2-3-2020 "Delinkage Debunked: Why Replacing Patents With Prizes for Drug Development Won’t Work" https://itif.org/publications/2020/02/03/delinkage-debunked-why-replacing-patents-prizes-drug-development-wont-work (Philip founded Geneva Network in 2015. His main research interests are the intersection of intellectual property, trade, and health policy. Formerly he was an official at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, where he worked in its Global Challenges Division on a range of IP and health issues. Prior to his time with WIPO, Philip worked as director of policy for International Policy Network, a UK-based think tank, as well as holding research positions with the Adam Smith Institute and Reform, both in London. He has also worked as a political risk consultant and a management consultant. He is a regular columnist in a wide range of international newspapers and has published a number of academic studies. He holds degrees from the London School of Economics and Durham University (UK).)Elmer The Current System AND novel biomedical innovation.
Chinese Tribal Medicine proves Compatibility and our Innovation Links. Erstling 8, Jay. "Using patent to protect traditional knowledge." Tex. Wesleyan L. Rev. 15 (2008): 295. https://open.mitchellhamline.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1187andcontext=facsch (Professor of Law, William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota.)Elmer Advantages of Affirmative AND follow China's example
RandD’s key to innovation – otherwise, future pandemics. Marjanovic et al. ’20 (Sonja; Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge; May 2020; “How to Best Enable Pharma Innovation Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis”; RAND; https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA407-1.html; Accessed: 8-31-2021; AU) As key actors AND improved innovation conditions
Evolving superbugs trigger extinction. Srivatsa ’17 (Kadiyali; specialist in pediatric intensive and critical care medicine in the UK. Invented the bacterial identification tool ‘MAYA’; 1-12-2017; "Superbug Pandemics and How to Prevent Them", American Interest; https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/01/12/superbug-pandemics-and-how-to-prevent-them/, Accessed: 8-31-2021; AU) It is by now AND past fifty years.
10/30/21
SeptOct - DA - Innovation v EU
Tournament: Jack Howe Invitational | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harker GS | Judge: Asher Towner Strong current IP guarantees causes massive Pharma innovation. - Answers Evergreening/Me-Too Drugs Stevens and Ezell 20 Philip Stevens and Stephen Ezell 2-3-2020 "Delinkage Debunked: Why Replacing Patents With Prizes for Drug Development Won’t Work" https://itif.org/publications/2020/02/03/delinkage-debunked-why-replacing-patents-prizes-drug-development-wont-work (Philip founded Geneva Network in 2015. His main research interests are the intersection of intellectual property, trade, and health policy. Formerly he was an official at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, where he worked in its Global Challenges Division on a range of IP and health issues. Prior to his time with WIPO, Philip worked as director of policy for International Policy Network, a UK-based think tank, as well as holding research positions with the Adam Smith Institute and Reform, both in London. He has also worked as a political risk consultant and a management consultant. He is a regular columnist in a wide range of international newspapers and has published a number of academic studies. He holds degrees from the London School of Economics and Durham University (UK).)Elmer The Current System AND novel biomedical innovation
Trade Secrets are key to incentivize competitive Innovation – specifically key to protect start-ups. Gutfleisch 18, Georg. "Employment issues under the European Trade Secrets Directive: Promising opportunity or burden for European companies." European Company Law Journal 15 (2018): 175-181. (working as an Associate with Brandl and Talos Rechtsanwälte GmbH in Vienna, Austria, and recently studied in the LL.M. (International and European Business Law) program at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.)Elmer The protection of AND secrets are misappropriated
Yes Link – the thesis of the Aff is mean to help ease burden of whistleblowers in winning suits to expose Trade Secrets – the mere threat of a weakening IPR and Secret Protection deters investment. Ezell et al. ’19 (Stephen; vice president of global innovation policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation; 4-25-2019; “The Way Forward for Intellectual Property Internationally”; Information Technology and Innovation Foundation; https://itif.org/publications/2019/04/25/way-forward-intellectual-property-internationally; Accessed: 8-31-2021; AU) IPR reforms also AND to economic growth
Pharma innovation solves Pandemics, ABR, and Bioterrorism – only Private Firms have the ability for preparedness and reaction. Marjanovic and Feijao 20 Sonja Marjanovic and Carolina Feijao May 2020 "Pharmaceutical Innovation for Infectious Disease Management" https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PEA400/PEA407-1/RAND_PEA407-1.pdf (directs RAND Europe's portfolio of research in the field of healthcare innovation, industry and policy)Re-cut by Elmer As key actors AND improved innova-tion conditions
Bioterrorism and future pandemics cause extinction. de Bretton-Gordon 20, Hamish. "Biosecurity in the wake of COVID-19: the urgent action needed." (2020). (Director at DBG Defense)C.VC Policymakers around the AND community than biosecurity
9/19/21
SeptOct - DA - WTO Bad
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Peninsula RM | Judge: Mizrahi -Dosche - Stuckert COVID vaccine debate will kill the WTO, but the aff reverses that instability. Meyer 6-18-21 (David, Senior Writer, https://fortune.com/2021/06/18/wto-covid-vaccines-patents-waiver-south-africa-trips/) The World Trade AND text," she said
The 1AC evidence isolates that each of the problems they mention aren’t solely caused by IP, but rather expressions of the overarching system of capitalism – thus collapsing the whole system is key.
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: Semis | Opponent: Sequoia AS | Judge: David - Danielle - Gordon Interpretation – Marijuana isn’t a Medicine Mosley 20, Mark. "Medical Marijuana Is a Dangerous Lie." Emergency Medicine News 42.8 (2020): 2-3. (Dr. Mark Mosley is an emergency medicine physician in Wichita, Kansas and is affiliated with Wesley Healthcare Center. He received his medical degree from University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years.)Elmer Marijuana is not AND ingredient in aspirin
FDA and CDC definitions prove. CDC ’18 (CDC; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 3-7-2018; “Is marijuana medicine?”; CDC; https://www.cdc.gov/marijuana/faqs/is-marijuana-medicine.html; Accessed: 9-4-2021; AU) The marijuana plant AND chemical you’re getting
Violation – the resolution calls for reductions on IP protections for medicines, but the aff prevents future patents for cannabis-derived products. Vote neg for limits and ground. Expanding the definition of “medicine” to anything that could be used in a medical setting floods the neg with cases to prep for – everything from new methods of chemo to upgrading stethoscopes becomes topical.
At best – they’re extra-T since Cannabis isn’t intrinsically medicinal, it just has medicinal uses so they would reduce Recreational Marijuana patents too which isn’t topical and explodes limits. Johnson 20 Ian Johnson 1-20-2020 "Cannabis Patents 2000 – 2019: Trends Following Legalization" https://plantlaw.com/2020/01/20/cannabis-trends-medical-recreational/ (Registered Patent Agent, Plant and Planet Law Firm)Elmer These findings correspond AND cannabis patent activity
9/7/21
SeptOct - T - Ought
Tournament: Jack Howe Invitational | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harker GS | Judge: Asher Towner 1 Interpretation – The Affirmative must defend a definite reduction of IP protections for Medicines. “Ought” means a particular obligation. American Heritage Dictionary 16 5th Edition by Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries Elmer Used to indicate obligation or duty. Obligation means a binding requirement – it denies an option. Black’s Law 90 Black’s Law Dictionary 2ND ED. “Obligation” https://thelawdictionary.org/obligation/ Elmer An obligation is a legal duty, by which a person is bound to do or not to do a certain thing. Civ. Code Cal. 2 Violation – The Aff does not definitely reduce IP Protections – there’s a world where the Courts don’t agree w/ the Plaintiffs. 3 Standards – a Limits – Allowing Conditions Affs explodes the Topic – there’s an infinite number of other conditions that become Topical if this Aff does - companies could be forced to go through a third-party audit to check if their IP protections were beneficial or not, public citizens could be asked to take a poll as to whether a certain IP patent should go through or not, etc. b Neg Ground – Conditions Affs allow the Aff to spike out of every Neg Arg – generics like Innovation don’t link if the Aff can say the Aff only applies if it is proven to not harm innovation or Biotech Heg since they can say “only if it doesn’t violate National Security”. No Neg Link arguments assume every condition since they’re all Patents Good/Bad meaning they either force us to research infinite conditions or we simply lose since the 1AR will no link everything. Proven in this instance, since the 1AR will always say “every Neg Arg will just be proven to be against the Public Good” making negating impossible. 4 TVA – unconditionally enforce the Plan regardless of plaintiff justifications. 5 Paradigm Issues – a Topicality is Drop the Debater – it’s a fundamental baseline for debate-ability. b Use Competing Interps – 1 Topicality is a yes/no question, you can’t be reasonably topical and 2 Reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation. c No RVI’s - 1 Forces the 1NC to go all-in on Theory which kills substance education, 2 Encourages Baiting since the 1AC will purposely be abusive, and 3 Illogical – you shouldn’t win for not being abusive. d Topicality outweighs 1AR Theory – 1 Outweighs on scope cause 1AC abuse effects every speech – we had to be abusive since the 1AC was abusive first and 2 Better for norming since we have more speeches to discuss what’s the best norm for debate.
9/19/21
SeptOct - T - Reduce
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: Semis | Opponent: Sequoia AS | Judge: David - Danielle - Gordon 1 Interpretation – Reduce means to cancel. Black’s Law 90 Black’s Law Dictionary 2ND ED. “Reduce” https://dictionary.thelaw.com/reduce/Elmer In Scotch law. To rescind or annul. That means the Aff has to annul IP protections in their entirety, they can’t just modify it. 2 Violation – They “delay enforcement” which is a modification, not a complete annulment 3 Standards – a Neg Ground – Core Neg Generics like Innovation and Biotech Heg are predicated on scope of effect – minor modifications in how long a patent lasts for or what it effects allows the 1AR to minimize our links to zero which destroys being Neg on a Topic w/ very little Generic Ground. b Limits – Allowing Affs to make patent modifications explodes Aff ground by three-fold because for all four intellectual property protections for every medicine MULTIPLIED by different time modifications, different scope modifications which makes predictable preparation and in-depth clash impossible. 4 TVA – eliminate the enforcement of all cannabis patents – solves their offense. 5 Paradigm Issues – a Topicality is Drop the Debater – it’s a fundamental baseline for debate-ability. b Use Competing Interps – 1 Topicality is a yes/no question, you can’t be reasonably topical and 2 Reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation. c No RVI’s - 1 Forces the 1NC to go all-in on Theory which kills substance education, 2 Encourages Baiting since the 1AC will purposely be abusive, and 3 Illogical – you shouldn’t win for not being abusive. D T link turns 1ar theory – the only reason we had to be abusive is because they were in the first place