Foreword

Abstract

During the past several years the NATURAL LAW FORUM has achieved a distinctive and honored place among legal and philosophical journals. This has primarily been due to the diligent efforts of the board of editors under the leadership first of Professor Anton-Hermann Chroust and more recently Professor John Noonan as editors and of Professor Andrew T. Smithberger as managing editor. This degree of excellence was continued with the first issue of the FORUM under its new name of THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF JURISPRUDENCE. With the resignation of Professor Noonan the Board of Editors has appointed us co-editors of THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF JURISPRUDENCE. We are privileged and pleased to accept this appointment. It is our intention and hope that we will continue the successful record established by the past editors of this journal. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF JURISPRUDENCE, as Professor Noonan noted in the 1969 issue, will be continuous in policy and spirit with the NATURAL LAW FORUM. The NATURAL LAW FORUM has been dedicated to a critical examination of the significance of natural law for our times