美国金理德律师事务所与明尼苏达大学中国中心联合推出“谁来赔付？国际法和美国法框架下的疫情索赔问题”在线法律讲座，由首席合伙人亚历山大 H.E. 莫拉瓦博士和王昶律师主讲。
在线讲座的时间为 6月18日（星期四）正午12点到下午1点（美国中部时间）。
新冠疫情在全球造成了巨大的经济损失，美国密苏里州和密西西比州已经在美国联邦法院起诉中国，要求赔偿。一些集体诉讼案件也已经启动。部分共和党议员也试图在美国国会立法，绕过国家主权豁免原则，以利于这些案件不被法院撤销。
主讲律师们将从国际公法和美国法的角度对与疫情相关的作为或不作为的可能责任及法律后果进行分析。相关国际索赔是否具有任何基于国际公法和美国法的法理基础，还是完全的无理取闹？
Kingsfield Law partners Alexander H.E. Morawa, SJD, and Chang Wang will co-present a CLE webinar titled “Who is going to pay for it? The Pandemic Indemnity Claims under Public International Law and U.S. Law” at the University of Minnesota China Center on June 18 at noon CST.
The economic damage caused by theCOVID-19 pandemic is mounting across the world. The U.S. economy has been impacted by the pandemic with unprecedented speed and severity. In recent months, some U.S. and European government officials have expressed the desire to seek damages from China, where the coronavirus outbreak presumably originated. The states of Missouri and Mississippi have already filed lawsuits in the U.S. federal courts, alleging China did not do enough to stop the deadly outbreak. In addition, some small business owners and medical professional shave filed class-action lawsuits against China. Republican senators from Missouri, Tennessee, and Arizona are proposing legislation to create ad hoc exceptions to foreign sovereign immunity – the key hurdle for those legal casesto proceed.  
This webinar will discuss possible liability - or legal consequences more broadly - under public international law(PIL) and U.S. law for pandemic-related action or inaction. Are there standards and principles in PIL that could provide guidance regarding such claims? What types of claims are possible, and who might have ‘international jurisdiction’to entertain them? Would the defendant states have to submit to them? How likely is it that there would be a ‘judicial’ or otherwise ‘independent and impartial’ determination under PIL, instead of a geopolitical standoff? Could, and should, damages be assessed and enforced? Are national (U.S.) courts the proper forum for such a determination, even if there would be enabling legislation? What would be the international response to a national award of damages? And ultimately: should there be a permanent international dispute settlement and compensation process for matters involving international liability beyond the fragmented mechanisms currently available?  
These questions are, of course, profoundly political in nature. Whatever the legal answers may be, the liability claims have already reminded many Chinese of “the century of humiliation” and the Unequal Treaties: in particular, the Boxer Protocol signed between the Qing Empire of China and the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1901. 
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