Reimagining the Law

The Role of Law in Models of Ethical Behavior

“…Nesteruk (1999b) notes that most people imagine the law as coercive -as rules or institutions that constrain behavior. If instead we envision the law as rhetoric, he argues, we will see that law is not external to our ethical lives, but an integral part of them.…”

Moral Markets and Moral Managers Revisited

“…For a more sophisticated view of the relationship between morality and law cf. Jeffrey Nesteruk, 1999. …”

Deep Links: Business School Students' Perceptions of the Role of Law and Ethics in Business

“…Laws constrain but they also enable and help individuals convert "dead assets" into capital (de Soto, 2000). If we are to heed Nesteruk's (1999) call for the "reimagining" of the law, especially as it relates to ethics, our model must be complex and expansive enough to capture these paradoxical aspects of the legal environment of business. We believe that the "images" of law revealed in our research open a window to a better understanding of how law relates to ethics and business more generally.…”