The Asia Pacific Law Review (APLR) is the leading peer-reviewed law journal in the Asia Pacific Region. Since its first Volume was published in 1992, APLR has provided a forum for examining key legal and policy developments in the region. It is dedicated to promoting and supporting interdisciplinary exchanges which support policy and decision making. Published on a bi-annual basis, APLR welcomes original articles and book reviews from scholars and practitioners around the world which address topics of central importance to the Asia Pacific region.
Over the last three decades, APLR has maintained this tradition and charted key legal developments within the region. The Asia Pacific region which includes South, Central, East, Southeast and South Asia, plus Australasia and the Pacific islands, has undergone significant economic, political, and social transformation in the last decade. It has become the world’s fastest growing region and is poised to remain at the centre of edge-cutting legal change and innovation. Legal research and studies must respond to these changes and highlight the central role law plays in the Asian Pacific. The APLR aims to be at the forefront of the legal dynamism and transformation occurring within the region and is strategically aligned both in vision and scope to address the challenges and opportunities which will arise.
APLR is a generalist law journal which publishes manuscripts on subjects of domestic, regional and international law. It also welcomes articles which are conceptually, theoretically and methodologically sound including comparative, doctrinal, critical, and interdisciplinary articles. APLR has published articles by globally recognised leading scholars such as James R. Crawford, Jianfu Chen, Yuwen Li, Prabhash Ranjan, Lei Chen, Christopher Forsyth, Petros Mavroidis, August Reinisch, Eleonora Rosati, etc. It has also attracted articles by eminent judges and world-renowned practitioners such as Lord Briggs of Westbourne (Justice of the UK Supreme Court), Sundaresh Menon (Fourth Chief Justice of Singapore), Robert French (Twelfth Chief Justice of Australia), and Neil Kaplan (CBE QC SBS).
APLR attracts a diverse global readership and is indexed in all top indices such as the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and SCOPUS. It is the first Asia-based law journal to be included in the SSCI. The journal is also indexed/abstracted in Index to Legal Periodicals and Books, and is widely accessible through HeinOnline, Lexis, Proquest, EBSCO, and Taylor & Francis Online.
Peer Review Policy
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is via Submission Portal.
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