10 August 99 Search this site Law and Ethics. If the aim of ethics is always the harmony, intensity, and vividness that involves the perfection of importance for that occasion, the effective boundaries of those occasions are set by social values imbedded in treaties, constitutions, laws, judicial decisions, and regulations.
Governmental regulations represent the minimum standards for organizational conduct.
Moreover, all laws that deal with safety, health and the legal process itself have ethical foundations. Ethics also deals with many matters that the law addresses inadequately or not at all. History is replete with unethical laws. Apartheid in South Africa is but one example. Laws subjugating women are others.