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41 Alaska L. Rev. i (2024-2025)

handle is hein.journals/allr41 and id is 1 raw text is: NOTE FROM THE EDITOR The Alaska Law Review is pleased to present our December 2024 issue, the first in our forty-first volume. This issue is distinctive in several ways. It concludes the fortieth year of the Alaska Law Review's tenure at Duke University School of Law. It represents our sixth biennial symposium issue. It is one of the longest issues we have published and reflects the exceptional efforts on the part of the twenty-eight editors and fourteen authors who collaborated over these last eight months. This year's symposium, entitled Access to Justice in Alaska, is central to the Alaska Law Review's mission in a particular and special way. Spanning topics from environmental justice to technology to Community Justice Workers, the symposium dealt with a number of recurring themes, including the importance of resources and community-driven work. In listening to these conversations, I was reminded of the importance of intentionally centering the Alaska legal community in everything we do at the Alaska Law Review. It is a privilege to serve practitioners in Alaska by providing legal scholarship and resources on current issues in the field. With this symposium issue, we offer a firm recommitment to listening, to adapting, and to centering Alaskan practitioners and readers in each stage of our work. I am so thankful to you, our readers, who have provided feedback, submitted pieces, and accepted us into your homes and workplaces; your generosity and passion for this work is the heart of the Alaska Law Review. I am also proud of our staff, who worked hard to bring this symposium issue to publication. This issue features a transcription of the Keynote Address, five articles, two student notes, and one student case comment. We begin the Access to Justice issue with a transcription of the keynote address by Nikole Nelson. In Addressing the Access to Justice Crisis: Think Systemically, Act Locally, Nelson describes the immense access challenges Alaska residents face. She outlines the barriers to access and the ways programs like Alaska's Community Justice Workers are working to overcome those barriers. Finally, Nelson's keynote concludes with a message of hope for practitioners and advocates: If we empower everyone to know and use the law, justice will be universally available. The keynote offers a perfect segue into our first article, which provides an overview of the creation and implementation of Alaska's trailblazing Community Justice Workers program. Alaska Legal Services Corporation (ALSC) attorneys Joy Anderson and Sarah Carver partner with Dr. Robert Onders for Community Justice Workers: Part of the Solution