The Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal (APLPJ) is a web-based, American legal journal covering issues in Asia and the Pacific Rim. Our objectives are to disseminate legal research by law professors, legal practitioners, social scientists, economists, and students; to increase awareness of legal issues impacting the region and to provide a forum to discuss legal topics that fall within the Journal’s geographic scope. In addition to the web format, the journal is available through the legal databases LexisNexis.

APLPJ publishes 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.

2023 – 2024 Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal
Executive Board & Staff Editors

Editors-in-Chief

Elyse Nakamoto

Kalina Nguyen Le

Executive Editor

Nicole Tabios

Publications Editors

Kacey Fujino

Michelle He

Managing Editor

McKenzie Gallagher

Staff Editors

Paris Johnson

Paige Kop Shimabuku

Craig Okahara-Olsen

Denielle Pedro

Edward Stern

Jennifer Tse

Senior Editors

Nakoa Gabriel

Wil Tottori

Faculty Advisors

Troy J.H. Andrade

Garrett Halydier

Mark Levin