Asked by the New York Times on Wednesday whether there were any limits on his global powers, President Trump replied: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”“I don’t need international law,” he added in an interview with four of the newspaper’s White House correspondents. It’s a rewriting of international law that I analyse in this week’s Law Society Gazette. You can read my assessment — headlined “Injecting morality into international law” — by clicking here, accepting or rejecting cookies and then clicking anywhere on the right-hand page.

Source: International New York Times January 09, 2026 06:25 UTC