This paper considers the role that the law of international responsibility, both State responsibility and responsibility of international organizations, plays in claims and disputes about covid-19. It proceeds by examining in turn the rubrics of the internationally wrongful act, content of responsibility, and implementation of responsibility. On most points, blackletter law is perfectly capable of answering the questions raised by claims related to covid-19. But evolutionary potential inherent in the normal international legal process should also be recognised, whether it manifests itself by further strengthening current rules, elaborating vague rules by application, filling gaps in current law by generating new practice or even, exceptionally, revisiting rules currently in force.

本文考虑了国际责任法，无论是国家责任还是国际组织责任，在关于covid -19的主张和争端中都发挥着作用。它依次研究了国际不法行为的原理，责任的内容和责任的执行。在大多数情况下，Blackletter法完全有能力回答与covid -19相关的索赔提出的问题。但是，也应认识到正常国际法律程序固有的进化潜力，无论它是通过进一步加强现行规则，通过适用来拟定模糊的规则，通过产生新的实践来填补现行法律中的空白，还是以例外的方式重新审视现行的现行规则而得以体现。 。