Asian–Pacific Law & Policy Journal
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 to 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 15 years now and is currently published both on the Web and in traditional paper format.
The Journal most recently published Volume 16, Issue 2.