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25 Asian Am. L.J. 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/aslj25 and id is 1 raw text is: Editors' Note The Asian American Law Journal honors its twenty-fifth volume with increased emphasis on diversity, solidarity, and inclusion and the reminder that progress requires constant vigilance. We began our academic year under the shadow of two different, yet related, crises. The first was the horror and tragedy of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville on August 11 and 12, 2017. That weekend, while hundreds of people gathered to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee and assert their ideology of white supremacy, an act of terrorism killed Heather Heyer and injured twenty-eight other peaceful counterprotestors. White supremacist protests then recurred in Berkeley for months. The second was the shocking discovery that our law school--known affectionately as Boalt Hall to generations of alumni, faculty, and staff--was named for a virulent racist who wrote openly about the desirability of exterminating Chinese people. In reaction to these crises, this volume's scholarship, symposium, and membership activities seek to contribute to national and local conversations about the effect of white supremacy on racial justice and representation today. In Anti-Chinese Racism at Berkeley: The Case for Renaming Boalt Hall, Professor Charles P. Reichmann examines our school's connection to John Boalt, whose recently rediscovered anti-Chinese beliefs directly influenced the passing of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Professor Reichmann's discovery has triggered dialogue between our students, faculty, and alumni over what obligations we have, if any, towards the name Boalt, a debate enveloping institutions across the country that bearthe legacies of racist men. In light of the litigation around President Donald Trump's evolving Muslim bans, Zoha Khan's Islam and the United States Supreme Court: Problems of History, Otherness, and Legal Recognition provides a critical history of the Supreme Court's references to Islam and Muslim people. Ms. Khan's meticulous database and analysis shows how the Court has consistently ignored and othered Muslims, despite the presence and contribution of Muslims in America since colonial times. Representation in media has continued to be a heated topic for AAPIs, and former AALJ Editor-in-Chief Jon Tanaka's piece, Promoting Asian American Representation Through Copyright: Moral Rights in The Last

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