Tournament: Loyola | Round: 3 | Opponent: Marlborough ML | Judge: Joshua Michael
Roy ’16 — Professor Alpana Roy is the Dean of Law at the University of Waikato, a legal academic and practitioner, and an accredited mediator. Her areas of research expertise include intellectual property and information technology (IT) law, internet and domain name law, traditional and Indigenous knowledge, and alternative dispute resolutionAlpana Roy, 6-29-2016, "Copyright: A Colonial Doctrine in a Postcolonial Age," COPYRIGHT REPORTER, Vol. 26, No. 4, December 2008: 112-134, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract'id=2802005, accessed 8-24-2021) nikki
In this article, I am interested in exploring the legal doctrine of copyright from
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14 of the TRIPS Agreement. These provisions are discussed briefl y below.
WTO is a Trojan Horse for accumulation by dispossession and global imperialism—-the regime of credibility surrounding it is ideologically manufactured
Screpanti 14 – Ernesto Screpanti, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Siena, Global Imperialism and the Great Crisis: The Uncertain Future of Capitalism, p. 110-113)
The Role of International Organizations
Of the international economic organizations, those that work
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came to be capable of acting autonomously in the interests of multinational capital.
Vanni ’21 — Dr. Vanni obtained both her PhD and LLM degrees in International Economic Law from the University of Warwick, where her doctoral thesis was awarded the 2018 SIEL–Hart Prize in International Economic Law. She has BA(Hons) in International Relations and Politics from Keele University, where was awarded the Vice-Chancellor Partial Scholarship (2004-2007). Dr. Vanni currently teaches the undergraduate and postgraduate modules in intellectual property law (Amaka Vanni, 3-23-2021, "On Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines and Vaccine Imperialism," TWAILR, https://twailr.com/on-intellectual-property-rights-access-to-medicines-and-vaccine-imperialism/, accessed 8-24-2021) nikki
These events – the corporate capture of the global pharmaceutical IP regime, state complicity
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not wait for the next crisis to learn the lessons from this crisis.
Vote neg to endorse effective indigenous resistance oriented towards the overthrow of economic globalization and racial neoliberalism and the emergence of a world outside of capital.
Jodi Melamed, 2011 ("Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism, associate professor of English and Africana Studies @ Marquette University , P181- p186)pk
There are hundreds of examples, from every continent except Antarctica, of indigenous peoples
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world-encompassing circulation of meaning, value, relationality, and matter.
Our praxis is incompatible with politically centered methodologies – the 1AC’s injection of critical scholarship into policymaking is a move to colonial instrumentalization that dilutes and resignifies indigenous thought to bolster imperialism.
Bolton and Minor ’16 — (Michael Bolton, Associate Professor of Political Science, Pace University, Elizabeth Minor, Visiting Research Scholar @ Jindal school of international affairs, "The Discursive Turn Arrives in Turtle Bay: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons’ Operationalization of Critical IR Theories," https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1758-5899.12343)
Within the IR literature there is a perennial admonition to make theory more ‘relevant’
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changes (cf. Jeffrey, 2013, pp. 107–131).
The role of debate is to disrupt the multiplicities of violence animated by colonial capitalism – we are winning the uniqueness debate as academic institutions are embedded in hegemonic power structures now – resistance is the only ethical demand your ballot should be oriented towards.