Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal
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The Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal (APLPJ) is an open-access biannual journal published by the William S. Richardson School of Law
at the University of Hawaii
. APLPJ is dedicated to issues facing Asia
and the Pacific Rim
.
The scope of the journal is to publish "articles, translations, book reviews, essays, case notes, and comments on current topics in comparative and transnational law focused on one or more of the following countries or geographic entities: Australia, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China (including Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macau Special Administrative Region), East Timor, Fiji, Hawai‘i, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, Laos, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, New Zealand, North Korea, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam."
In August 1999, Jim Hitchingham (as Editor in Chief) and Ken Schwartz (as Executive Editor) founded the APLPJ with assistance and support from Dr. Lawrence Foster, Dean of the law school, and Professors Ronald Brown and Mark Levin. Over the next six months, the Journal's Board implemented Hitchingham's vision of using the Internet for free dissemination of legal issues and research. Unlike other legal journals at the time, which only provided abstracts of publications online, the APLPJ provided articles online in their entirety in an easy use, easy to read format. To reach a broader legal audience, the Board entered into agreements with Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw to publish Journal content. In February 2000, the first volume of APLPJ was published only through the journal's website as "the first fully functional, web-based, [i.e., open-access] American legal journal dedicated to East Asia, Polynesia, and Australia." The journal has published regularly for more than 10 years now and is currently published both on the Web and in traditional paper format.
The Journal most recently published Volume 11, Issue 2.
William S. Richardson School of Law
The William S. Richardson School of Law is a public, co-educational institution of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa in Honolulu, Hawaii. Named after the beloved Hawaii State Supreme Court Chief Justice William S. Richardson, it is the only law school in the State of Hawaii...
at the University of Hawaii
University of Hawaii
The University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment...
. APLPJ is dedicated to issues facing Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
and the Pacific Rim
Pacific Rim
The Pacific Rim refers to places around the edge of the Pacific Ocean. The term "Pacific Basin" includes the Pacific Rim and islands in the Pacific Ocean...
.
The scope of the journal is to publish "articles, translations, book reviews, essays, case notes, and comments on current topics in comparative and transnational law focused on one or more of the following countries or geographic entities: Australia, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China (including Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macau Special Administrative Region), East Timor, Fiji, Hawai‘i, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, Laos, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, New Zealand, North Korea, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam."
In August 1999, Jim Hitchingham (as Editor in Chief) and Ken Schwartz (as Executive Editor) founded the APLPJ with assistance and support from Dr. Lawrence Foster, Dean of the law school, and Professors Ronald Brown and Mark Levin. Over the next six months, the Journal's Board implemented Hitchingham's vision of using the Internet for free dissemination of legal issues and research. Unlike other legal journals at the time, which only provided abstracts of publications online, the APLPJ provided articles online in their entirety in an easy use, easy to read format. To reach a broader legal audience, the Board entered into agreements with Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw to publish Journal content. In February 2000, the first volume of APLPJ was published only through the journal's website as "the first fully functional, web-based, [i.e., open-access] American legal journal dedicated to East Asia, Polynesia, and Australia." The journal has published regularly for more than 10 years now and is currently published both on the Web and in traditional paper format.
The Journal most recently published Volume 11, Issue 2.