Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Dulles VN | Judge: Diana Alvarez
Nichols 13 Nichols, R. (2013). Indigeneity and the Settler Contract today. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 39(2), 165–186. doi:10.1177/0191453712470359 SM
Throughout the 20th century, of course, these ‘high theories’ of human development
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reformulate some modified version of analytic contract theory in relation to indigenous peoples.
Settler colonialism is deeply engrained in Western culture and reflects in the universalist logic of ideal theory – their philosophy gets appropriated to justify extermination of Indigenous peoples.
Hinkinson 12 ~John Hinkinson – Editor at Arena, an Australian maganzine. "Why Settler Colonialism?" Arena. 2012. https://arena.org.au/why-settler-colonialism/~~ bracketed for ableist language
Settler colonialism as a practice is a subset of colonial history, one where the
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the complex cultures of the region. Imposed ‘freedom’ has devastating effects.
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.
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.
International institutions such as the WTO find their origins in the domination of Western imperial states and corporations – the resolution itself is indebted to the perpetuation of racialized global hierarches through the exportation of finance capitalism.
Valdes and Cho 11 (Francisco, Law Prof @ U of Miami, and Sumi, Law Prof @ DePaul, July 2011, "COMMENTARY: CRITICAL RACE THEORY: A COMMEMORATION: RESPONSE: Critical Race Materialism: Theorizing Justice in the Wake of Global Neoliberalism", Connecticut Law Review 43 Conn. L. Rev. 1513)
2. Blinded Identities: Race and Racism Under Racialized Globalized Neoliberalism As we mentioned
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"traditional" neocolonial identity politics than by principled or colorblind justice. n182
Makoni ’17 — Munyaradzi Makoni is a freelance science journalist from Zimbabwe. He was Canada’s International Development Research Centre-Research Africa science journalism fellow in 2012. His journalism work has appeared in various media organizations including Africa Renewal, Forskning and Framsteg, Intellectual Property Watch, IPS, SciDev.net, Thomson Reuters Foundation, and University World News among others. (Munyaradzi Makoni, 1-20-2017, "Urgent need to decolonise intellectual property curricula," University World News, https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20170119072916504, accessed 8-29-2021) nikki
There is an urgent need for decolonised intellectual property, or IP, law curricula
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invited to personally or virtually lead some of the seminars in the future.
The role of debate is to disrupt colonial logics that produce epistemic and material violence. We control the uniqueness debate as academic institutions are saturated with anti-indigenous sentimentality now – decolonization is the only ethical demand your ballot should be oriented towards.