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27 Asian Am. L.J. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/aslj27 and id is 1 raw text is: Editors' Note Each year, the editor's note is meant to both celebrate the scholarship produced by the Asian American Law Journal (AALJ) and reflect on recent issues affecting the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. The articles and pieces that AALJ is publishing this year are certainly worthy of celebration. However, their publication cannot, and should not, be divorced from the context of the unprecedented events of 2019-2020. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and protests for racial justice highlight questions that this journal has sought to answer since its inception: Where do Asian Americans find themselves in the fraught legal and political landscape of the United States? How can Asian American voices continue to contribute in important and effective ways? This past year, the removal of the name Boalt Hall from the law school's building demonstrated the power of AAPI voices here at Berkeley Law. John Henry Boalt, the building's previous namesake, supported the Chinese Exclusion Act in a speech he delivered in the late nineteenth century, entitled The Chinese Question. With the support of AAPI organizations around the country, Berkeley Law struck his name from the building in January. We are proud that many members of the journal were able to contribute their own voices to this moment, and we are grateful to Professor Charles P. Reichmann for publishing his pivotal piece on John Boalt in our 25th Volume. However, our work is not yet over. From the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans following the pandemic's inception in China to the political uncertainty of a community that is neither Black nor White, perhaps it is no surprise that all of the pieces published this year seek to clarify and empower the AAPI political identity. The mandate of this journal is to speak truth to power. The authors this year demonstrate that Asian Americans speak this truth from a whole host of social, economic, and cultural positions. As this country continues down what seems to be an ever-rockier road towards inclusion and freedom from oppression, the work this journal does to amplify important, but often unheard, legal scholarship becomes more and more crucial. Volume 27 consists of three articles, an interview, and an artwork, all representing obstacles that Asian Americans historically had, and presently have, to overcome. In the first article, Two Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Changing Demographics Underscore the Importance of US Citizenship, Professor Elizabeth R. OuYang analyzes two recent Supreme Court cases to argue that these decisions indicate the importance of naturalization and citizenship in the United States in enhancing AAPI's political, economic, and social power. Professor OuYang implores immigrant communities to urgently seek naturalization in an increasingly anti-immigrant climate in

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