Are you suggesting that public international law belongs only in seminar rooms? Fine — then let’s have one.
OP-ED. The U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran constitute a breach of the most fundamental rule in public international law: the prohibition on using military force against another state. Sweden’s response has been slow and cautious, and at the same time the prime minister and deputy prime minister play down international law as a “seminar issue.”
Swedish government building Rosenbad, Stockholm. Photo: Michael Erhardsson
The views expressed in the referred op-ed are the authors' own.
What is actually going on? That is the question four leading scholars of public international law raised on Wednesday in an op‑ed in Dagens Nyheter.
Further reading
The op‑ed was written by international law experts at Stockholm University: Professor Emeritus Ove Bring, and the three SCGG‑affiliated scholars Professor Emeritus Said Mahmoudi, Professor Mark Klamberg and Professor Pål Wrange.
Last updated: 2026-04-16
Source: Communications Office