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Generally, there are three kinds of law review electronic version. One is the “electronic database” of traditionally law review articles, usually in the forms of free abstract even the full text of law journals accessible on the Internet, such as the legal databases for example LexisNexis and Westlaw; and several online archive initiated by the law reviews themselves, for example, the European Journal of International Law (EJIL) has a full text online archive (www.ejil.org) besides its traditionally hard copies of journal.
The second kind is the “Electronic Journal”; such as the Electronic Journal of Comparative Law (http://law.kub.nl/ejcl/) sponsored by the law faculties of Maastricht, Tilburg and Utrecht. And, the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review (this is a World Wide Web-based, solely online journal. It features articles from scholars and practitioners and provides a forum for scholarship regarding the changing technological landscape and its influence on law and social policy, www.stlr.org). And, the Asian Pacific Law and Policy Journal (The APLPJ is the first fully-functional, web-based, American legal journal dedicated to issues facing Asia and the Pacific Rim, http://www.hawaii.edu/aplpj), etc. Such Electronic Journals are usually quarterly, refereed, all-electronic journal published on the World Wide Web (WWW).
The third kind is the “self publishing law journal or website”. The author will have an account to freely publish his/her papers without a formal process of peer review before publication. Or the author can simply send an Email to the website owner and post his paper on the Internet with out a formal review before publication. The system of those self publishing journals at some extents likes the bulletin board system (BBS).
The “ABC Law Review --Electronic Journal of International Law & Comparative Law” in this proposal refers to the second one, namely, World Wide Web-based, solely electronic journal.
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