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24 Berkeley J. Black L. & Pol'y 1 (2024)

handle is hein.journals/afamlpol24 and id is 1 raw text is: Editors' Note As law students responsible for a small legal publication within Berkeley Law, few things are more satisfying than publishing and sharing the scholarship we've worked on with our authors all school year. We are proud that the Berkeley Journal of Black Law & Policy (BJBLP) continues to grow and demonstrate our commitment to the goals of our publication, which you may read in detail on our website.' With Black attorneys representing only 5% of the US legal profession and Black faculty members making up approximately 7% of full-time academics- despite Black individuals constituting roughly 13.7% of the U.S. population-the continued underrepresentation of Black students at Berkeley Law continues to have a disruptive effect on BJBLP. This year, we prioritized building BJBLP's capacity to publish high-quality legal scholarship by refining and documenting the processes for article selection, editing, and symposium planning. As a result, during the 2024-25 academic year, we hosted 3 events connecting BJBLP editors with Black Berkeley faculty, including a California state court judge, trained 20 Associate Editors, organized a successful Spring Symposium titled AllPower to the People: Reclaiming Populism as a Tool for Liberation, and published our twenty-fourth Volume. The publication of this Volume-and BJBLP's ongoing success-are vital now more than ever, as we witness a presidential administration's ongoing attempts to undermine the rule of law and erode the very foundations of American democracy and social institutions. At the start of the 2024-25 academic year, we resolved to dedicate BJBLP's 2025 Symposium and twenty-fourth Volume to the late Dean Christopher Edley Jr. We had the privilege of taking Professor Edley's final class at Berkeley Law, co-taught with Professor Maria Echeveste: The Struggle for Education Equity and Excellence. Professor Edley instilled in both of us the belief that a just society requires equitable access to education. Guided by that principle, we committed ourselves to elevating scholarship and ideas that move us closer to a world in which Black youth can learn and thrive with dignity and opportunity. This commitment was reflected in the final panel of our Spring Symposium, Black University: Reimagining Higher Education in a Populist Era. These ideas are also reflected in this issue's selection of a school-focused article, Abolishing Fourth Amendment Dead Zones: Strengthening Protections in School Cellphone Search Policies, and a youth-focused article, They're Cops Too. Our third article, DOI: https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38ZO2ZB5G 1. See https://www.law.berkeley.edu/library/ir/bjblp/about.php. 1

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