THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT AND BUSINESS LAW BY DON MAYER, DANIEL M. WARNER, GEORGE J.SIEDEL, JETHRO K. LI

THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT AND BUSINESS LAW BY DON MAYER, DANIEL M. WARNER, GEORGE J.SIEDEL, JETHRO K. LIEBERMAN AND ALYSSA ROSE MARTINA
Posted date: 22/07/2026

In a nation, the law can serve to (1) keep the peace, (2) maintain the status quo, (3) preserve individual rights, (4) protect minorities against majorities, (5) promote social justice, and (6) provide for orderly social change. Some legal systems serve these purposes better than others. Although a nation ruled by an authoritarian government may keep the peace and maintain the status quo, it may also oppress minorities or political opponents (e.g., Burma, Zimbabwe, or Iraq under Saddam Hussein). Under colonialism, European nations often imposed peace in countries whose borders were somewhat arbitrarily created by those same European nations. Over several centuries prior to the twentieth century, empires were built by Spain, Portugal, Britain, Holland, France, Germany, Belgium, and Italy. With regard to the functions of the law, the empire may have kept the peace—largely with force—but it changed the status quo and seldom promoted the native peoples’ rights or social justice within the colonized nation.

 

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