The Hawaiian Journal of Law and Politics is an online, annual research journal published in association with the Hawaiian Society of Law and Politics. The journal is edited by graduate students from the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa and faculty advisers. The Journal aspires to be a general journal that focuses on national and international issues of the Hawaiian State. The Journal also welcomes relevant articles or commentaries that evoke discussion. Each issue will normally contain: Articles, Comments, Essays and Notes, Recent Developments, Book Reviews, and Selected Documents. Authors are invited to consult the style guide and accepted papers are required to conform to the Journal's format.

EDITOR'S NOTES 

ARTICLES

• An Interdisciplinary Study of the Term "Hawaiian" – Dr. Kanalu Young 
• Hawaiʻi, History, and International Law – Dr. Matthew Craven

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

• American Occupation of the Hawaiian State: A Century Gone Unchecked – David Keanu Sai

COMMENTS

• International Decisions: Lance Paul Larsen V. The Hawaiian Kingdom, 5 February 2001 – Dr. David Bederman
• Kūʻē and Kūʻokoʻa: History, Law, And Other Faiths – Dr. Jonathan Osorio

SELECTED DOCUMENTS

• Anglo-Franco Proclamation, November 28, 1843
• Hawaiian-American Treaty of Friendship, Commerce And Navigation, 1849
• Hawaiian-American Postal Convention, 1870
• Hawaiian-American Treaty of Commercial Reciprocity, 1875
• Hawaiian-American Postal Convention Concerning Money Orders, 1883
• Supplementary Convention to the 1875 Commercial Reciprocity Treaty, 1884
• Report of U.S. Special Commissioner James Blount to Secretary of State Walter Gresham, July 17, 1893 
• Secretary of State Walter Q. Gresham to U.S. Minister Albert S. Willis Concerning the Hawaiian Kingdom Investigation, October 18, 1893 
• Correspondence from Secretary of State Walter Gresham to President Grover Cleveland Concerning the Blount Report, October 18, 1893 
• President Grover Cleveland's Message to Congress, December 18, 1893 
• Correspondence from U.S. Minister Albert Willis to Secretary of State Walter Gresham concerning Queen Liliʻuokalani's Acceptance of President Cleveland's Conditions for Reinstatement, December 20, 1893 
• Petition of the Hawaiian Patriotic League to President Grover Cleveland, December, 27, 1893 
• Treaty of Annexation, June 16, 1897 
• Queen Liliʻuokalani's Protest of 1897 Treaty of Annexation, June 17, 1897 
• Joint Resolution of Annexation, July 6, 1898 
• Protest of Annexation by the Hawaiian Patriotic League and the Hawaiian Political Association, August 6, 1898 
• U.S. Apology Resolution Acknowledging Illegal Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, November 23, 1993 
• Letter Confirming Telephone Conversation with U.S. State Department relating to Arbitral Proceedings at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, March 3, 2000
• Larsen v. Hawaiian Kingdom Arbitration Award, Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Hague, February 5, 2001 
• Agreement between Lance Paul Larsen and the Hawaiian Kingdom for the Settlement of the Case in the Permanent Court of Arbitration Concerning Alleged Liabilities of the Hawaiian Kingdom Government, September 21, 2001 
• Hawaiian Complaint filed with the United Nations Security Council, July 5, 2001 
• Declaration of Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice by the Acting Council of Regency, August 29, 2001 
• Legal Opinion (Portion) by Dr. Matthew Craven Concerning the Continuity of the Hawaiian State, July 12, 2002
• Plaintiffs' Closing Argument, December 17, 2003, Office of Hawaiian Affairs v. Housing Finance and Development Corporation et al.

ARTICLES

• Kuleana: Toward a Historiography of Hawaiian National Consciousness, 1780 -2001 - Dr. Kanalu Young
• Mapping the Hawaiian Kingdom: A Colonial Venture? – Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Dr. Kaʻeo Duarte 
• Indigenous "Sovereignty" and International Law: Revised Strategies for Pursuing "Self-Determination" – Dr. Jeff Corntassel, Dr. Tomas Primeau
• Legal Issues on the Continuity of the Republic of Lithuania – Dr. Dainius Žalimas

COMMENTS

• Teaching Land and Sovereignty - A Revised View – ʻUmi Perkins

SELECTED DOCUMENTS

• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, December 9, 1948
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights, December 10, 1948
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, December 21, 1965
• Declaration of the Principles of International Cultural Co-operation, November 4, 1966
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, December 16, 1966
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, December 16, 1966
• A Brief History of Land Titles in the Hawaiian Kingdom by W.D. Alexander, Superintendent of Government Survey, 1882
• In the Matter of the Boundaries of Pulehunui, Supreme Court of the Hawaiian Kingdom, 1879

EDITOR'S NOTES

ARTICLES

• Setting the Record Straight on Hawaiian Indigeneity - Dr. David Keanu Sai
• American Hegemonic Discourse in Hawai‘i: Rhetorical Strategies in Support of American Control Over Hawai‘i - Dr. P. Kalawaiʻa Moore
• Tūtū’s Hawaiian and the Emergence of a Neo Hawaiian Language - Dr. R. Keao Nesmith
• The Queen And I: a Story of Dispossessions and Reconnections in Hawai‘i - Dr. Sydney Lehua Iaukea
• Negotiating Native Tenant Rights - Dr. ʻUmi Perkins
• The Subtleties of a Map and a Painting - Dr. Lorenz Gonschor

REVIEW

• Royal Commission of Inquiry Book Review - Dr. Niklaus Schweizer

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

• The Royal Commission of Inquiry: Investigating War Crimes and Human Rights Violations Committed in the Hawaiian Kingdom
• Legal Opinion on War Crimes Related to the United States Occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom since 17 January 1893 - Professor William Shabas
• Legal Opinion on the Authority of the Council Of Regency of the Hawaiian Kingdom - Professor Federico Lenzerini
• UN Independent Expert Memorandum Regarding the Occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom - Dr. Alfred deZayas
• The National Lawyers Guild Calls Upon the State of Hawaiʻi to Comply with the Laws of Occupation
• International Association of Democratic Lawyers Resolution Calling Upon the United States to Immediately Comply with International Humanitarian Law in its Prolonged Occupation of the Hawaiian Islands—the Hawaiian Kingdom

SELECTED DOCUMENTS

• Your Kuleana: Toward a Historiography of Hawaiian National Consciousness and the Important Question "So Now What?" - Dr. Kanalu Young

EDITOR'S NOTES

ARTICLES

• Aloha ‘āina: From The Historical Record - Kauʻi Sai-Dudoit, Blaine Namahana Tolentino
• Reaffirming Aboriginal Hawaiian Agency Towards English Language Medium Schooling In The Hawaiian Kingdom - Dr. Larson Ng
• Reconnecting Polynesian Kingdoms During The Age Of Empire: Kalākaua, Pomare V And The Plan To Create A Tahitian Royal Order - Dr. Lorenz Gonschor
• Native Hawaiian Indigenous Discourse: Contained Resistance To Us Hegemony, Rejection Of The Hawaiian Kingdom Nation-state - Dr. P. Kalawaiʻa Moore
• Backstory—larsen V. Hawaiian Kingdom At The Permanent Court Of Arbitration (1999-2001) - Dr. Keanu Sai
• The Distinction Between State And Government - Dr. Edward Heath Robinson
• The Law, The Plague And Colonial Hong Kong: The Development Of Political Identity In Present Day Hong Kong - Xiang Gao, Guy C. Charlton

EDITOR'S NOTES

ARTICLES

• Liholiho’s Kaua‘i Coup - Dr. Susan Corley - Dr. Susan Corley
• “He Kaula Uila”: Hawaiian Educational Policy in the 19th Century “Ke A‘o Palapala ma nā Aloaliʻi a me nā Kua‘āina” - Nālani Balutski
• Synergy Through Convergence: The Hawaiian State and Congregationalism - Dr. Keanu Sai
• Apartheid Hawai‘i: the California Colony at Wahiawā - Dr. Ronald Williams
• The Decline of Hawaiian Language Common Schools in the Hawaiian Kingdom From 1864 to 1893: a Statistical Analysis - Dr. Larson Ng
• Spectres of State: Illusory Reasoning and Misread of History and Politics in Opposition to the Hawaiian Kingdom - Dr. P. Kalawaiʻa Moore

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

• Operational Plan for Transitioning the State of Hawai‘i Into a Military Government – The Acting Hawaiian Council of Regency
• Operational Plan for Transitioning the Military Government Into the Hawaiian Kingdom Government – The Acting Hawaiian Council of Regency