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| Greenhill | 2 | Opponent: St Agnes EH | Judge: Andrew Gong 1ac whistleblowers |
| Greenhill | 4 | Opponent: Peninsula SM | Judge: Chris Theis 1ac - whistleblowers |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: TOC | Round: Finals | Opponent: you | Judge: me | 9/18/21 |
SO - 1AC - WhistleblowersTournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: St Agnes EH | Judge: Andrew Gong 1ACAdvantage 1 is WhistleblowingEuropean trade secrets protections for medicine chill whistleblowing – that undermines public health and drug efficacyHAI et al 14 — (Health Action International and a coalition of other NGOs, HAI works to expand health access in Europe, "EU trade secrets directive threat to health, environment, free speech and worker mobility", 12-17-14, Available Online at https://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/attachments/statement_-_eu_trade_secrets_directive_needs_amendments.pdf, accessed 9-8-21, HKR-AM) Current law places the burden of proof on whistleblowers, which reinforces legal uncertainty – empirics prove a lack of accountability for corporations.Moody 16 — (Glyn Moody, Contributing Policy Editor at Ars Technica. He has been writing about the Internet, free software, copyright, patents and digital rights for over 20 years., "New EU trade secrets law could jail whistleblowers, block drug trial data access", Ars Technica, 4-14-16, Available Online at https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/new-eu-trade-secrets-law-whistleblowers-journalists-drug-trials/, accessed 8-27-21, HKR-AM) This burden structure makes intimidation lawsuits inevitable, further deterring whistleblowing.CEO 17 — (Corporate Europe Observatory, non-profit research and campaign group whose declared aim is to "expose any effects of corporate lobbying on EU policy making"., "Adapting the EU Directive on Trade Secrets 'Protection' into National Law", February 2017, Available Online at https://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/attachments/trade_secrets_protection_directive_-_a_transposition_briefing.pdf, accessed 9-9-21, HKR-AM) Effective protections for European medical whistleblowers are crucial to strengthen public health and prevent pandemics – COVID was the test runDreyfus and Galizzi 20 — (Suelette Dreyfus, PhD, Researcher at the University of Melbourne, and Bruno Galizzi, part of the Blueprint for Free Speech Spain, "Protect whistleblowers, protect everyone's health", 5-19-20, Blueprint for Free Speech, Available Online at https://www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/en/news/protect-whistleblowers-protect-everyones-health, accessed 9-8-21, HKR-AM) The EU could be a global leader in pandemic response, but, the cohesion and increased health security that the aff promotes is key to accessing that leadershipVeron and Di Ciommo 20 – Veron, Pauline, and Di Ciommo, Mariella, October 2020 – "The EU's Role in Global Health in the Era of COVID-19," The European Centre for Development Policy Management, Pauline Veron is a Junior Policy Officer for the European External Affairs programme (75) and Migration programme (25). She has an undergraduate degree in Political Science Science Po Strasbourg with time at Trinity College Dublin, and a Masters in Public Administration and another in International Relations and Regional Integration Process also from Science Po Strasbourg. Mariella Di Ciommo is a Policy Officer in the European External Affairs programme. Before joining ECDPM she worked in different roles at Development Initiatives in the UK and then in Brazil. In Brazil, as a Strategic Partnerships Manager, she led DI's work on data for development at country level and international engagement on South-South cooperation, climate finance and poverty. She holds a master in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics and one in Economics from Bocconi University. ~Harker KB~ New diseases cause extinction – uniquely probable due to environmental changes.Mooney 21 — (Tom Mooney, Senior Communications and Advocacy Manager for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, "Preparing for the next "Disease X"", CEPI, 2-1-21, Available Online at https://cepi.net/news_cepi/preparing-for-the-next-disease-x/, accessed 9-10-21, HKR-AM) Advantage 2 is UniformityEU trade secret regulations are fragmented – lack of clear standards on protection across countries undermine businesses. Uniform trade secret legislation is key – single state exceptions doom growth.Junge 16 — (Fabian Junge, Law @ Maastricht University, "THE NECESSITY OF EUROPEAN HARMONIZATION IN THE AREA OF TRADE SECRETS", MAASTRICHT EUROPEAN PRIVATE LAW INSTITUTE WORKING PAPER No. 2016/04, Available Online at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2839693, accessed 9-8-21, HKR-AM) Independently, whistleblowing protections are key to preserving market dynamics and increasing investment.Abazi 16 — (Vigjilenca Abazi, Assistant Professor @ Maastricht University, "Trade Secrets and Whistleblower Protection in the European Union", European Papers, Vol. 1, 2016, No 3, European Forum, Insight of 3 September 2016, pp. 1061-1072, Available Online at https://www.europeanpapers.eu/en/europeanforum/trade-secrets-and-whistleblower-protection-in-the-eu, accessed 9-9-21, HKR-AM) Business sentiment is key to the broad EU economy – issues spillover from single industries or countries due to value chains – coordinated harmonization is the most important internal link to providing the institutional buffers that stop econ collapseKukuvec and Oberhofer 18 Anja Kukuvec Vienna University of Economics and Business, Harald Oberhofer Vienna University of Economics and Business Austrian Institute of Economic Research. Kukuvec, Anja, and Harald Oberhofer. "The propagation of business sentiment within the European Union." (2018). European economic decline causes multiple scenarios for global warWright 12 ~Thomas Wright, fellow with the Managing Global Order at the Brookings Institution. What if Europe Fails? 2012. http://csis.org/files/publication/twq12SummerWright.pdf~~ SolvencyPlan Text: The member states of the European Union ought to reduce trade secret protections for medicines by requiring that plaintiffs prove that the acquisition, use, and disclosure of the trade secret did not pertain to revealing misconduct, wrongdoing, or illegal activity, or to protecting the general public interest.The plan shifts the burden of proof from whistleblowers to plaintiffs.Abazi 16 — (Vigjilenca Abazi, Assistant Professor @ Maastricht University, "Trade Secrets and Whistleblower Protection in the European Union", European Papers, Vol. 1, 2016, No 3, European Forum, Insight of 3 September 2016, pp. 1061-1072, Available Online at https://www.europeanpapers.eu/en/europeanforum/trade-secrets-and-whistleblower-protection-in-the-eu, accessed 9-9-21, HKR-AM) That expands the whistleblowing exception to trade secret protections by restricting employer discretion, which reduces the extent of trade secret protections.Vandekerckhove 21 — (Wim Vandekerckhove, Professor of Business Ethics @ University of Greenwich and co-Director of the Centre for Research in Employment and Work, Phd in Applied Ethics from Ghent University, "Is It Freedom? The Coming About of the EU Directive on Whistleblower Protection", Journal of Business Ethics (2021), Available Online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-021-04771-x, accessed 9-10-21, HKR-AM) Frameworkthe standard is maximizing expected wellbeing1 – Extinction o/ws under any framework, even moral uncertainty – infinite future generationsPummer 15 — (Theron Pummer, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, "Moral Agreement on Saving the World", Practical Ethics University of Oxford, 5-18-2015, Available Online at http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/05/moral-agreement-on-saving-the-world/, accessed 7-2-2018, HKR-AM) we do not endorse ableist language= 2 – Actor specificity:~A~ Governments must aggregate since every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.~B~ States lack wills or intentions since policies are collective actions.~C~ No act- omission distinction— governments must vote on bills, so inaction is an explicit act taken, and governments are responsible for the public sphere so they must aggregate. Actor-specificity comes first since different agents have different ethical standings.3 - only it can explain degrees of wrongness- it is worse to kill thousands than to lie to a friend- either ethical theories cannot explain comparative badness, or it collapses to util | 9/18/21 |
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