The Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal (APLPJ) is an American Law Review, which, like all other such law reviews, is student run. APLPJ is the first fully online Law Review to address issues concerning the Asian-Pacific region.

APLPJ can be reached at the following addresses:

           Telephone:    +1 (808) 956-8895

           Fax:     +1 (808) 956-5647

Legal Citation Format

Beginning with volume two, the APLPJ is a consecutively paginated journal. All APLPJ articles should be cited in conformity with Rules 16.3 and 18.2.6 of the Bluebook: A Uniform Guide to Citations (17th ed.). Citation to APLPJ articles should follow this pattern:

[Author's name], [Article's title], [Volume number] Asian-Pac. L & Pol'y J. [Page number(s)] ([Year of publication]), at [Article URL].

For example:

See generally Dawn Nagatani, U.S.-Japan Enhanced Initiative as an Instrument of Change: The Efficacy of Japan's Latest Effort at Telecommunications Deregulation, 2 Asian-Pac. Law & Pol'y J. 291 (2001), at http://www.hawaii.edu/aplpj/pdfs/v2-11-Nagatani.pdf.

See Dawn Nagatani, U.S.-Japan Enhanced Initiative as an Instrument of Change: The Efficacy of Japan's Latest Effort at Telecommunications Deregulation, 2 Asian-Pac. Law & Pol'y J. 291, 299 (2001), at http://www.hawaii.edu/aplpj/pdfs/v2-11-Nagatani.pdf.

Please note that the PDF files provided on the APLPJ website are the official versions of all APLPJ articles and, therefore, should be the items referenced in all citations. Accordingly, citation to specific page numbers (e.g., "299" in the example above) refers to the page number in the PDF files.

Please also note that volume one was not paginated consecutively. Rather, the site was designed to conform with Rule 17.3.3 of the 16th edition of the Bluebook, which reads in part: "Citations to journals that appear only on the Internet should include the volume number, the title of the journal, and the sequential article number." Thus, citation to APLPJ articles in volume one should follow this pattern:

[Author's name], [Article's title], [Volume number] [Journal name] [Article number]: [Page number(s)] [Year of publication], at [Location of PDF on web].

For example:

See Christopher J. Duncan, The 1998 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Amendments: Moral Empiricism or Moral Imperialism?, 1 Asian-Pac. Law & Pol'y J. 16: 9 (2000), at http://www.hawaii.edu/aplpj/pdfs/16-cj.pdf.

Note: The sequential article numbers for volume one can be found on this page.

Non-legal Formats:

MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION (MLA) CITATION FORMAT

Example:

Bell, Gary. "The New Indonesian Laws Relating to Regional Autonomy: Good Intentions, Confusing Laws." Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal 2.1 (2001). http://www.hawaii.edu/aplpj/pdfs/v2-01-Bell.pdf (Date Visited ).

AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA) CITATION FORMAT

Example:

Bell, G. F. (2001). The New Indonesian Laws Relating to Regional Autonomy: Good Intentions, Confusing Laws. Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal 2(1). http://www.hawaii.edu/aplpj/pdfs/v2-01-Bell.pdf (Date Visited ).

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