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
Frances Nicole Tabios
Managing Editor
Mckenzie Gallagher
Publication Editors
Kacey Fujino
Michelle He
Senior Editors
Nakoa Gabriel
Paige Kop Shimabuku
Denielle Pedro
Wil Tottori
Staff Editors
Daisy Mae Fernando
Olivia Grodzka
Jennifer Marie Hoshino
Paris Johnson
Seok Jong (Peter) Lee
Tina Loos
Cara Rozzi
Craig Okahara-Olsen
Edward Stern
Jennifer Tse
Haumea Velasco
Faculty Advisors
Troy Andrade
Garret Halydier
Mark A. Levin