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0 - Contact InfoTournament: any | Round: 1 | Opponent: anyone | Judge: anyone email is your best bet to contact me, contact me for disclosure | 8/23/21 |
SO - Bio Terror V1Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: Durham BG | Judge: Matthew Slencsak 1AC-BioterrorismAdvantage is BioterrorismThe US handled COVID terribly – it put the whole world at risk for potential attacks, due to their poor reaction time to solving the pandemic.Lewis 21Tanya Lewis, 3-11-2021, "How the U.S. Pandemic Response Went Wrong—and What Went Right—during a Year of COVID," Scientific American, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-u-s-pandemic-response-went-wrong-and-what-went-right-during-a-year-of-covid/ Big companies investment in barriers to compulsory licensing invites circumvention.====Avedissian 02==== COVID has proven how to solve for a bioterrorism attack – vaccination is the most important thing and making sure everyone can get access to it.Lyon 21Regan F Lyon, 7-1-2021, "COVID-19 Response Has Uncovered and Increased Our Vulnerability to Biological Warfare," OUP Academic, https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/186/7-8/193/6135020 - Harker PG Companies reducing IP protections are key for everyone to get access to drugs and vaccines – especially in low income countries.Baird, 13~Sean, Magic and Hope: Relaxing Trips-Plus Provisions to Promote Access to Affordable Pharmaceuticals. Boston College Journal of Law and Social Justice, 33(1), 107-145, 2013, http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/jlsj/vol33/iss1/4, accessed 7-31-21 Boston College of Law~ Bioterror is possible and an existential risk – outweighs nuke war====Von Hippel 17 ==== PlanPlan: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to allow exceptions to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines during a potential bioterrorism attack.The aff solves – most credible studies agree CL with bioterrorism are key and the only option.Oriola 07 JOUR AU - Oriola, Taiwo PY , 2007/01/01, Against the plague: pharmaceutical patents exemption right as a biosecurity strategy It solves reducing IP protections is k2 innovation and production of medicines in low-income countriesChao and Mody 15Tiffany Chao and Gita Mody, March 5 2015 "The impact of intellectual property regulation on global medical technology innovation" https://innovations.bmj.com/content/1/2/49 | 9/11/21 |
SO - EU V1Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 3 | Opponent: Mountain View EN | Judge: Bennett Dombcik 1AC1Advantage 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 strengthening 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) COVID causes a societal illusion of preparedness – but even given current policy we're still incredibly vulnerableLander 8/4/21 ~Eric Lander, President Biden's Science Advisory and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy) "Opinion: As bad as Covid-19 has been, a future pandemic could be even worse—unless we act now" 8/4/21, The Washington Post~ RM Extinction – climate pressures and changing system equilibrium make the risk uniquely highSupriya 4/19 ~Lakshmi Supriya got her BSc in Industrial Chemistry from IIT Kharagpur (India) and a Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech (USA). She has more than a decade of global industry experience working in the USA, Europe, and India. After her Ph.D., she worked as part of the RandD group in diverse industries starting with semiconductor packaging at Intel, Arizona, where she developed a new elastomeric thermal solution, which has now been commercialized and is used in the core i3 and i5 processors. From there she went on to work at two startups, one managing the microfluidics chip manufacturing lab at a biotechnology company and the other developing polymer formulations for oil extraction from oil sands. She also worked at Saint Gobain North America, developing various material solutions for photovoltaics and processing techniques and new applications for fluoropolymers. Most recently, she managed the Indian RandD team of Enthone (now part of MacDermid) developing electroplating technologies for precious metals.) "Humans versus viruses - Can we avoid extinction in near future?" News Medical Life Sciences, 4/19/21, https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210419/Humans-versus-viruses-Can-we-avoid-extinction-in-near-future.aspx~~ RM 2Advantage 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) European consistency in trade secret whistleblowing laws is key – current legal vagueness create uncertainty for whistleblowers and businessesJunge 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 8-27-21, HKR-AM) Only the plan's universal and maximal mandate solvesJunge 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) 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 were not for the purpose of 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) Frameworkthe standard is maximizing expected wellbeing1 – Extinction o/ws under any framework, even under 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 ~B~ States lack wills or intentions since policies are collective actions | 9/11/21 |
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