Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal

The [http://www.hawaii.edu/aplpj Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal] is an open-access biannual journal published by the [http://www.hawaii.edu/law William S. Richardson School of Law] at the University of Hawaii. It 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, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, New Zealand, North Korea, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam."

The APLPJ was founded in 1999 by students Jim Hitchingham (as Editor in Chief) and Ken Schwartz (as Executive Editor), with the support of Prof. Ronald Brown and Dr. Lawrence Foster, dean of the school. The first volume of the APLPJ was published only through the journal's website and purported to be "the first fully functional, web-based, American legal journal dedicated to East Asia, Polynesia, and Australia." The journal is now published both on the web and in traditional paper format.

In 2008, the APLPJ published Volume 9, Issue 2.