By now it has become a tradition among Hungarian scholars of natural law thinking to assamble at the end of May to facilitate an interdisciplinary scholarly discussion on natural law and natural law related problems. This forum, entitled "Natural Law Day" (Természetjog Napja) is convened in each year by the Ius naturale Research Group of the Department of Legal Philosophy of Pázmány Péter Catholic University. This research group conducts all-encompassing researches into various areas of natural law thinking; its main focuses concern the contemporary legal philosophic issues and the history of natural law thinking. The forums are characterised by their participants' shared enthusiasm for truth-seeking in socio-political matters. Members of this scholarly community believe that investigation into the natural law tradition, broadly conceived, can promote our understanding of the truth of social relations. The success of this endeavour is marked by the growing number of the forums' attendance and its character of internationalisation.
The 4[th] "Natural Law Day" was organised on 31st May 2019 in close communication with the Ius naturale Research Group's Italian partner association, CERMEG (Research Centre on Legal Methodology). The plenary session consisted of three keynote lectures. The lectio magistralis was delivered by the awardee of this year's "Distinguished Scholar of Natural Law", Professor Maurizo Manzin, the director of CERMEG. The second keynote lecture was held by Professor Federico Puppo, while the third by Serena Tomasi Ph.D. The afternoon featured two parallel sessions with a total number of five working groups. The Italian and English presentations made up two working groups, namely "Natural law thinking and morality" and "History of natural law thinking". The present number of Iustum Aequum Salutare covers the edited version of nine of these foreign language papers.
Finally, we would like to express our sincerest gratitude to the Journal's Editors for their kindness in making this special issue possible. ■
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[1] Authors are Guest Editors.
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