Natural Law and Justice is a student production which reflects the depth and intellectual magnitude of Franciscan University students majoring in the field of Criminal Justice. Part of what makes Franciscan’s Criminal Justice program so unique is the major’s academic grounding in ethical and moral inquiry. Even more keenly, the entire justice system and its many operations are subjected to natural law analysis – a scrutiny which calls on our best and brightest majors to evaluate justice protocols considering natural law theory. As part of that intellectual journey, every student in the Criminal Justice major must author a scholarly production – a thesis that reviews a particular criminal justice policy or practice and at the same time, critiques the policy or practice in light of natural law theory. The mix of authored scholarship is quite impressive and gives a hopeful testimony to the relevance of natural law jurisprudence even in these very tumultuous times. Aside from the diversity of topics evident in this inaugural issue, the natural law thinkers that give the analysis meaning are just as eclectic. Whether St. Thomas Aquinas or St. Augustine, Plato or Cicero, the readers will encounter the rich diversity of approaches in the school of natural law and yet, at the same time, be reassured by a comforting jurisprudence and the moral certainty that natural law reasoning provides.