Tournament: 1 - loyola | Round: 5 | Opponent: harrison ac | Judge: derek hilligoss
CP: The United Nations General Assembly should request an advisory opinion with binding force stating that WTO member nations’ intellectual property protections for medicines violate international law, and pass a concurrent resolution that non-compliance with the International Court of Justice’s opinion constitutes an enforceable violation of Charter obligations.
The United Nations International Court of Justice should convene and, if a dispute is present, issue a binding advisory opinion that the WTO member nations not implementing the above ruling are in violation of United Nations Charter obligations.
The ICJ has jurisdiction over IPR – international treaties prove
Venkatachalam 21 Manasa, B.A. LL.B. (law degree) at Gujarat National Law University in India “No Rocket Science!: Outer Space, Intellectual Property Rights, and the International Court of Justice,” Volkerrechtsblog, April 15, 2021, https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/no-rocket-science/ TG
The next question that arises is what forum can states approach for claiming violations of
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of approaching the ICJ for every IPR violation in outer space is questionable.
It’s key to harmonizing international IPR – solves the aff
Askew 2k Lee Ann, JD May 2000 “ECJ, the ICJ and Intellectual Property: Is Harmonization the Key,” Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law, Vol 7 Iss 2, 3-1-2000, https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/232678481.pdf TG
An important hurdle that must be jumped is compulsory jurisdiction to the ICJ without any
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a model which organizations, agencies and courts can follow in the future.
ICJ legitimacy is key to global multilateralism and cooperation
Korneliou 18 Kornelios, Permanent Representative of Cyprus and Vice-President of the 73rd Session of the UN General assembly, "Report of the International Court of Justice," United Nations, 10-25-2018 https://www.un.org/pga/73/2018/10/25/report-of-the-international-court-of-justice/
In the face of the headwinds against the multilateral system and global institutions, including
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international multilateral system, then adherence and respect for international law remains key.
Multilateral cooperation solves nuke war and warming
Yuval Noah Harari 18, Professor of History at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9/26/18, “We need a post-liberal order now,” The Economist, https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/09/26/we-need-a-post-liberal-order-now
The second thing to note about this vision of friendly fortresses is that it has
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walls keep rising, eventually the whole of humankind will feel the squeeze.
Climate change is linear – any reduction of emissions is necessary to limit immense suffering
Wells 19 (David Wallace-Wells is a National Fellow with the New America Foundation and is a deputy editor of New York Magazine, “The Cautious Case for Climate Optimism Believing in a comfortable future for our planet probably means some giant carbon-sucking machines,” New York Magazine, February 4, 2019, http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/book-excerpt-the-uninhabitable-earth-david-wallace-wells.html)
It’s not too late. In fact, it never will be. Whatever you
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always a matter of perspective, the possibility of four degrees shapes mine.
Warming guarantees extinction – multiple scenarios
Specktor 19 Brandon Specktor “Human Civilization Will Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now, New Paper Claims.” Live Science. June 4, 2019. https://www.livescience.com/65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html TG
According to the paper, climate change poses a "near- to mid-
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and perhaps "the end of human global civilization as we know it."
Extinction – nuke war fallout creates Ice Age and mass starvation
Steven Starr 15. “Nuclear War: An Unrecognized Mass Extinction Event Waiting To Happen.” Ratical. March 2015. https://ratical.org/radiation/NuclearExtinction/StevenStarr022815.html TG
A war fought with 21st century strategic nuclear weapons would be more than just a
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the operational and deployed nuclear arsenals, will leave the Earth essentially uninhabitable.