1AC Exploitation Climate and Debris 1N China DA Fee CP OSRF CP 1A All 2N All 2A All
Loyola
1
Opponent: Lynbrook MD | Judge: Ben Cortez
1AC Vaccines 1NC Vaccine DA and G7 CP 1AR Case 2NR DA and CP 1AC Case
Loyola
3
Opponent: Portola AS | Judge: Lena Mizrahi
1AC US COVID Waiver Plan 1NC T-The Vaccine DA Vaccine CP 1AR All 2NR T-The 2AR T-The
Loyola
6
Opponent: Yerba Buena KN | Judge: Sarah McLoughlin
AC Structural Violence and Stock Buy-out plan NC Innovation DA AMR DA Devloping Countries CP 1AR All 2NR AMR DA and CP 2AR All
UK
2
Opponent: Fremont TK | Judge: Matthew Davis
AC Evergreening NC Bioterror AMR Single Payer CP and Case 1AR All 2NR AMR CP and Case 2AR All
UK
3
Opponent: Harker GS | Judge: Bennett Dombcik
AC EU Trade Secrets NC T-The Bioterror and AMR 1AR All 2NR T and AMR 2AR All
UK
6
Opponent: Woodrow Wilson SR | Judge: Claire Chen
AC Innovation and Developing Countries NC Bioterror and AMR 1AR All 2NR AMR 2AR All
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Tournament: None | Round: Finals | Opponent: None | Judge: None Hi, I'm Ethan Nicoll Pronouns: he/him Your best chance at reaching me is by email at nicollethan03@gmail.com
9/4/21
NovDec - Dockworkers CP
Tournament: DAMUS | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harker RM | Judge: Claudia Riberia CP: Just governments ought to recognize the unconditional right to strike of all workers except dockworkers Global Food prices rising due to supply chain disruptions Good 10/07 Good, K., 2021. Global Food Prices Highest Since 2011, as Energy Costs Rise and Supply Chain Challenges Persist • Farm Policy News. online Farm Policy News. Available at: https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2021/10/global-food-prices-highest-since-2011-as-energy-costs-rise-and-supply-chain-challenges-persist/ Accessed 1 November 2021. Keith Good is the social media manager for the farmdoc project at the University of Illinois. He has previously worked for the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, and compiled the daily FarmPolicy.com News Summary from 2003-2015. He is a graduate of Purdue University (M.S.- Agricultural Economics), and Southern Illinois University School of Law. Bloomberg writer Megan Durisin...for supermarket customers.”
Work Stoppage at ports would severely harm the economy and drive inflation Werling 15 Jeffrey Werling 2015. National Impact of a West Coast Port Stoppage. ebook National Association of Manufacturers. Available at: https://www.nam.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/NAM-Port-Closure-Full-Report-2014.pdf Accessed 1 November 2021. Jeff Werling is Executive Director of Inforum, a research unit with in the Department of. Economics at the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) Tables 6a and...recover some business.
Rising food prices cause instability Koren and Winecoff 20 Koren, O. and Winecoff, W., 2020. Food Price Spikes and Social Unrest: The Dark Side of the Fed’s Crisis-Fighting. online Foreign Policy. Available at: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/20/food-price-spikes-and-social-unrest-the-dark-side-of-the-feds-crisis-fighting/ Accessed 1 November 2021. Ore Koren is an assistant professor at Indiana University Bloomington. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of political violence, including civil war, violent riots, and mass killing. W. Kindred Winecoff is a political scientist at Indiana University Bloomington. In early December 2010...in coming days. Instability leads to nuclear war Ramberg 16 Ramberg, Bennett. "Nuclear Weapons In Civil War Zones | By Bennett Ramberg - Project Syndicate." Project Syndicate. N.p., 2016. Web. 7 Sept. 2021. Bennett Ramberg, a policy analyst in the US State Department’s Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs under President George H.W. Bush, is the author of Destruction of Nuclear Energy Facilities in War and Nuclear Power Plants as Weapons for the Enemy. LOS ANGELES – The...for all of us.
11/7/21
NovDec - T - URS
Tournament: DAMUS | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough SL | Judge: Jonah Gentleman Interpretation: The affirmative must defend the right to strike without any restrictions or exceptions The phrase “unconditional right to strike” is a legal term. Its ONLY use in academic literature is to define a subset of the right to strike where the government CANNOT suspend the right. Here is an example from a railway worker strike in Germany: LARRY PETERSON PhD. ‘GERMAN COMMUNISM, WORKERS' PROTEST, AND LABOR UNIONS The Politics of the United Front in Rhineland - Westphalia 1920-1924’. 1993. Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-94-010-4718-0 ISBN 978-94-011-1644-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-1644-2. Larry Peterson (1949) received a PhD from Columbia University in 1979, and has been Managing Editor of Comparative Politics since 1983. He published widely about German, American, and comparative labor history.
Consistent with the legal definition of unconditional US Legal Dictionary No Date
Prefer:
One of the few actual uses of the term “unconditional right to strike” in the topic literature. Prefer because it uses the only definition within the topic literature. Consistency with the topic lit is key to fairness because without it, debaters could jettison any word of the resolution allowing for the proliferation of an infinite number of affirmatives. 2. Consistent with the legal definition of the term “unconditional” Legal precisions outweighs limits and ground --- it’s a prerequisite to effective education and progress Shannon 02
Violation: They don’t defend the right to strike in all cases
Vote neg:
Procedural fairness: Their interpretation explodes limits, opening the floodgates to an almost infinite scope of possible affirmatives that can be run at a tournament. They can cherry pick any restriction or condition which makes it impossible for the negative to reasonably prepare. This kills neg ground and creates a side bias for the aff. Steals all of the neg ground which is rooted in justifying conditions and restrictions on the right to strike. Debate is fundamentally a competitive game which means that fairness is a d-rule and a pre-req to evaluating aff offense. They obviously care about fairness because they follow speech times. If procedural fairness is irrelevant, then I get a 2NR. Limits outweigh – they’re the vital access point for any theory impact – its key to fairness – huge research burdens mean we can’t prepare to compete – and its key to education – big topics cause hyper-generics, lack of clash, and shallow debate – and it destroys participation Rowland 84
2. Argument skills: If I win that they aren’t consistent with the definition of “unconditional right to strike” then they are non-topical. Being topical is critical to allowing the neg to refute the aff in an in-depth fashion. This process produces iterative testing and improvement, where we learn to improve our arguments bases on our opponent’s arguments. This means that they are only winning the arguments they are because of my inability to predictably prepare and respond to them. This kills the educational ability of debate because the aff isn’t being exposed to the best possible counterarguments against their aff and the neg isn’t allowed to practice refutation. The educational aspect of debate is obviously important because schools fund the activity.
Drop the debater: If you drop the argument the aff has no offense and therefore there is no reason to vote aff. Also, key to deter future abuse. Topicality is a voting issue that should be evaluated through competing interps because reasonability is arbitrary and invites intervention. Also, topicality is a yes or no question. You either are topical or you are not topical. No RVIS: You shouldn’t win for following the rules and RVIS would lead to a chilling effect preventing a check on legitimate abuse.
11/6/21
SepOct - AMR DA
Tournament: Loyola | Round: 6 | Opponent: Yerba Buena KN | Judge: Sarah McLoughlin AMR research hanging by a thread – reliant on a few companies Al Jazeera 20 "Pharma Firms Not Making Enough Progress Against Superbugs: Report." Aljazeera.com. N.p., 2020. Web. 27 Aug. 2021. Drug companies are...and generics makers.
AMR research on the brink – any reduction in IP forces less research Plackett 20 Plackett, Benjamin. "Why Big Pharma Has Abandoned Antibiotics." Nature.com. N.p., 2020. Web. 26 Aug. 2021. Benjamin Plackett is a freelance writer in London. When scientists, public...times more lucrative.
Increase use of generics leads to increase resistance of microbes Eban 19 Katherine Eban, an investigative journalist and the author of the New York Times bestseller Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom, May 17 2019, “How Some Generic Drugs Could Do More Harm Than Good,” Time Magazine, https://time.com/5590602/generic-drugs-quality-risk/ For the 16...a global scale AMR increases poverty substantially in developing countries Dadgostar 19 Dadgostar, Porooshat. “Antimicrobial Resistance: Implications and Costs.” Infection and drug resistance vol. 12 3903-3910. 20 Dec. 2019, doi:10.2147/IDR.S234610 Porooshat Dadgostar is a Ph.D. student in Health Services Research and Policy at University of Rochester The literature review...the economic situation.26
Increase in poverty threatens global stability – terrorism, civil war, and disease Patrick 09 Patrick, Stewart. Too Poor For Peace? Global Poverty, Conflict, And Security In The 21St Century Reviewed By Stewart Patrick. 2009. Web. 28 Aug. 2021 tewart Patrick is a senior fellow and director of the Program on International Institutions and Global Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Prior to joining CFR, he directed the Center for Global Development’s project on Weak States and U.S. National Security. His most recent book is The Best Laid Plans: The Origins of American Multilateralism and the Dawn of the Cold War (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). Five years ag...remain tightly knotted.
9/11/21
SepOct - AMR DA V2
Tournament: UK | Round: 2 | Opponent: Fremont TK | Judge: Matthew Davis AMR research hanging by a thread – reliant on a few companies Al Jazeera 20 "Pharma Firms Not Making Enough Progress Against Superbugs: Report." Aljazeera.com. N.p., 2020. Web. 27 Aug. 2021. Drug companies are...and generics makers.
AMR research on the brink – any reduction in IP forces less research Plackett 20 Plackett, Benjamin. "Why Big Pharma Has Abandoned Antibiotics." Nature.com. N.p., 2020. Web. 26 Aug. 2021. Benjamin Plackett is a freelance writer in London. When scientists, public...times more lucrative.
Increase use of generics leads to increase resistance of microbes Eban 19 Katherine Eban, an investigative journalist and the author of the New York Times bestseller Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom, May 17 2019, “How Some Generic Drugs Could Do More Harm Than Good,” Time Magazine, https://time.com/5590602/generic-drugs-quality-risk/ For the 16...a global scale AMR increases poverty substantially in developing countries Dadgostar 19 Dadgostar, Porooshat. “Antimicrobial Resistance: Implications and Costs.” Infection and drug resistance vol. 12 3903-3910. 20 Dec. 2019, doi:10.2147/IDR.S234610 Porooshat Dadgostar is a Ph.D. student in Health Services Research and Policy at University of Rochester The literature review...the economic situation.26
Increase in poverty threatens global stability – terrorism, civil war, and disease Patrick 09 Patrick, Stewart. Too Poor For Peace? Global Poverty, Conflict, And Security In The 21St Century Reviewed By Stewart Patrick. 2009. Web. 28 Aug. 2021 tewart Patrick is a senior fellow and director of the Program on International Institutions and Global Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Prior to joining CFR, he directed the Center for Global Development’s project on Weak States and U.S. National Security. His most recent book is The Best Laid Plans: The Origins of American Multilateralism and the Dawn of the Cold War (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). Five years ag...remain tightly knotted.
Instability leads to nuclear war Ramberg 16 Ramberg, Bennett. "Nuclear Weapons In Civil War Zones | By Bennett Ramberg - Project Syndicate." Project Syndicate. N.p., 2016. Web. 7 Sept. 2021. Bennett Ramberg, a policy analyst in the US State Department’s Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs under President George H.W. Bush, is the author of Destruction of Nuclear Energy Facilities in War and Nuclear Power Plants as Weapons for the Enemy. LOS ANGELES – The...all of us.
9/11/21
SepOct - Bioterror DA
Tournament: UK | Round: 2 | Opponent: Fremont TK | Judge: Matthew Davis Advances make bioweapon attacks increasingly probable Howard 20 Howard, Andrea. "The Pandemic And America’S Response To Future Bioweapons - War On The Rocks." War on the Rocks. N.p., 2020. Web. 8 Sept. 2021. Lt. Andrea Howard is a nuclear submarine officer aboard the USS Ohio. Following her graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2015, she was a Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford and King’s College London, where she focused on the intersection of technology, security, and diplomacy in weapons of mass destruction policy. Lt. Howard won the U.S. Naval Institute’s 2019 Emerging and Disruptive Technologies Essay Contest and is a member of the Seattle Chapter of the Truman National Security Project. In the fall...in the future.
Decrease in patent protection forces offshoring – risks proliferation of biological threats Finlay 10 Finlay, Brian. The Bioterror Pipeline: Big Pharma, Patent Expirations, And New Challenges To Global Security. THE FLETCHER FORUM OF WORLD AFFAIRS, 2010. Web. 8 Sept. 2021. Brian Finlay is a senior associate at the Stimson Center in Washington, DC, where he directs the Managing Across Boundaries Program. He has worked at the Brookings Institution, the Century Foundation, and Canadas Laboratory Center for Disease Control/Health Canada. Myriad private sector...insufficiently regulated markets. Bioweapons cause extinction – overcomes natural barriers Barratt et al. ‘17 — Owen Cotton-Barratt et al- PhD in Pure Mathematics, Oxford, Lecturer in Mathematics at Oxford, Research Associate at the Future of Humanity Institute; (“Existential Risk: Diplomacy and Governance;” pg. 9; https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Existential-Risks-2017-01-23.pdf) 1.1.3 Engineered pandemics For...an existential catastrophe.
9/11/21
SepOct - Developing Countries CP
Tournament: Loyola | Round: 6 | Opponent: Yerba Buena KN | Judge: Sarah McLoughlin CP: Developed countries ought to establish through the UN a centralized system to donate money for the improvement of healthcare infrastructure in developing countries.
Focusing on IP distracts from the real barriers: lack of infrastructure and resources to distribute medicine Mercurio 07 Bryan Mercurio, Resolving the Public Health Crisis in the Developing World: Problems and Barriers of Access to Essential Medicines, 5 Nw. J. Int'l Hum. Rts. 1 (2007). http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/njihr/vol5/iss1/ Bryan Mercurio is a Law Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Even under the...those affected countries
9/11/21
SepOct - Innovation DA
Tournament: Loyola | Round: 6 | Opponent: Yerba Buena KN | Judge: Sarah McLoughlin Future pandemics are inevitable – globalization and climate change IPBES 21 IPBES WORKSHOP ON BIODIVERSITY AND PANDEMICS. IPBES, 2021. Web. 3 Sept. 2021. The Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is the intergovernmental body which assesses the state of biodiversity and ecosystem services, in response to requests from Governments, the private sector and civil society. Pandemics represent an...is currently demonstrating.
IP driven innovation key to combatting pandemics Ezell and McDole 21 Ezell, Stephen, and Jaci McDole. "Ten Ways IP Has Enabled Innovations That Have Helped Sustain The World Through The Pandemic." Itif.org. N.p., 2021. Web. 3 Sept. 2021. Jaci McDole is a senior policy analyst covering intellectual property (IP) and innovation policy at ITIF. She focuses on IP and its correlations to global innovation and trade. Her work includes ITIF’s Innovate4Health Initiatives (2017–2019) and A Covid-19 TRIPS Waiver Makes No More Sense for Copyrights Than It Does for Patents (2021). McDole comes to ITIF from the Institute for Intellectual Property Research, an organization she cofounded to study and further robust global IP policies. Stephen J. Ezell is ITIF vice president for Global Innovation Policy. He focuses on science, technology, and innovation policy as well as international competitiveness and trade policy issues. He is the coauthor of Innovating in a Service Driven Economy: Insights Application, and Practice (Palgrave McMillan, 2015) and Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage (Yale 2012). Innovation can—and...the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tournament: UK | Round: 2 | Opponent: Fremont TK | Judge: Matthew Davis CP: The US Federal Government ought to establish a single payer healthcare system Single Payer encourages innovation and covers costs Lemley et al. 20 MARK A. LEMLEY, William H. Neukom Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, LISA LARRIMORE OUELLETTE, Associate Professor of Law and Justin M. Roach, Jr. Faculty Scholar, Stanford Law School, and RACHEL E. SACHS, Associate Professor of Law, Washington University, 04-2020, “THE MEDICARE INNOVATION SUBSIDY,” NYU Law Review, https://www.nyulawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/NYULAWREVIEW-95-1-LemleyOuelletteSachs.pdf II PHARMACEUTICAL SUBSIDIES...unambiguously good thing.
9/11/21
SepOct - T-The
Tournament: Loyola | Round: 3 | Opponent: Portola AS | Judge: Lena Mizrahi Interp: The affirmative must defend all member nations of the WTO implementing a plan
Definitive articles like “the” mean the entirety of the subject – similar to the use of the word “all” Konig 18 König, Ekkehard. "Definite articles and their uses: ". Aspects of Linguistic Variation, edited by Daniël Olmen, Tanja Mortelmans and Frank Brisard, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2018, pp. 165-184. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110607963-006 Ekkehard König is a German linguist and Professor Emeritus at the Free University of Berlin, specializing in linguistic typology, semantics, and the linguistics of English. Definite articles have...in examples like (7).
This applies to the resolution because the word “the” before “member nations of the World Trade Organization” means that the resolution is asking the affirmative to defend all of the member nations implementing a policy.
2. “Member nations” is a plural that means that they have to defend more than one. Winter and Scha 14 Winter, Yoad, and Remko Scha. Plurals. 2014. Web. 4 Sept. 2021. In English and...generalized quantifier theory (chapter GQ). Grammar comes first: a) Stasis Point: using the grammatically correct interpretation of the resolution allows for a fixed stasis point that ensures a predictable division of ground. b) Resolvability: in grammar there is a definitive right and wrong interpretation which allows for an easily resolved debate. This ensures there is less judge intervention and increases topic education because it encourages less muddled T debates.
Violation: They only defend the US implementing a policy
Vote neg:
Procedural fairness: Their interpretation explodes limits, opening the floodgates to an almost infinite scope of possible affirmatives that can be run at a tournament. They can cherry pick any member nation of the WTO to have reduce IP protections which makes it impossible for the negative to reasonably prepare. This kills neg ground and creates a side bias for the aff. Debate is fundamentally a competitive game which means that fairness is a d-rule and a pre-req to evaluating aff offense.
Argument skills: If I win that the resolution has a definitive article that means they are non-topical. Being topical is critical to allowing the neg to refute the aff in an in-depth fashion. This process produces iterative testing and improvement, where we learn to improve our arguments bases on our opponent’s arguments. This means that they are only winning the arguments they are because of my inability to predictably prepare and respond to them. This kills the educational ability of debate because the aff isn’t being exposed to the best possible counterarguments against their aff and the neg isn’t allowed to practice refutation. The educational aspect of debate is obviously important because schools fund the activity.
TVA solves because they could just read the aff as an advantage. This is terminal defense against the aff and resolves all unique offense.
Drop the debater: If you drop the argument the aff has no offense and therefore there is no reason to vote aff. Also, key to deter future abuse.
Topicality is a voting issue that should be evaluated through competing interps because reasonability is arbitrary and invites intervention. Also, topicality is a yes or no question. You either are topical or you are not topical.
No RVIS: You shouldn’t win for following the rules and RVIS would lead to a chilling effect preventing a check on legitimate abuse.
CP: Member states of the G7 ought to implement a five point plan to address vaccine inequities:
Create a G7 Vaccine Emergency Task Force
Share vaccines for all diseases
Remove restrictions that are slowing the supply chain
Encourage the use of voluntary licensing
Increase financial support to low income nations
G7 plan has greatest impact
Glassman et al. 21 Glassman, Amanda. "Open Letter To G7 Leaders: A G7 Action Plan To Ensure The World Is Vaccinated Quickly And Equitably." Csis.org. N.p., 2021. Web. 1 Sept. 2021. Amanda Glassman is the Executive Vice President, Center for Global Development; CEO of CGD Europe; and Senior Fellow
Lardieri 21 Lardieri, Alexa. "Vaccine Hesitancy Declines, But Barriers Prevent Some Americans From Receiving Shot: Survey." US News. N.p., 2021. Web. 1 Sept. 2021. Alexa Lardieri is a reporter and digital producer for the Civic section of U.S. News and World Report, where she writes about breaking news. Hesitancy surrounding the...a vaccinated site.
IP protections key to ensuring high quality and safe medicine
Lybecker 16 Lybecker, Kristina. "Counterfeit Medicines And The Role Of IP In Patient Safety - Ipwatchdog.Com ~| Patents and Patent Law." IPWatchdog.com ~| Patents and Patent Law. N.p., 2016. Web. 24 Aug. 2021. Kristina M. L. Acri née Lybecker is an Associate Professor of Economics at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, and Chair of the Department of Economics and Business. The threat of...deficiencies and poverty.
Vaccine waiver leads to ineffective vaccines
Crosby et al. 21 Daniel Crosby, Evan Diamond, Isabel Fernandez De La Cuesta, Jamieson Greer, Jeffrey Telep, Brian White; Crosby specializes in international trade, investment and matters related to public international law. Diamond is a partner on our Intellectual Property, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Litigation team.; 3-5-2021; "Group of Nearly 60 WTO Members Seek Unprecedented Waiver from WTO Intellectual Property Protection for COVID-related Medical Products"; https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/group-of-nearly-60-wto-members-seek-2523821/, JD Supra, accessed 7-21-2021 Waiver risks uncontrolled...of commercial production.
Unsafe and ineffective vaccines would fuel vaccine hesitancy – spillover to other vaccines and turns case
Trogen et al 20 Trogen B, Oshinsky D, Caplan A. Adverse Consequences of Rushing a SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine: Implications for Public Trust. JAMA. 2020;323(24):2460–2461. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.8917 Brit Trogen is a pediatrics resident at Bellevue Hospital and NYU Langone in New York. David Oshinsky holds the Jack S. Blanton Chair in History at the University of Texas and is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University Arthur L. Caplan, is the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics at New York University Langone Medical Center and the founding director of the Division of Medical Ethics. As the SARS-CoV-2...safety and efficacy.