Personal Statement
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When occasionally reading the master piece Letter to a Young Lawyer by Alan Dershowitz, I was deeply attracted by words such as Lawyer, Justice, Practice Mentality, and Creed of Life.These words led to my further meditation on the qualities of a lawyer---critical thinking, efficient methods to defend one’s opinions, logical mentality.Living in a society in desperate need of justice and rightne, I had determined to devote myself to the cause of law resolutely.And the first thing is to be equipped with profeional knowledge and practice skills.Thus, after graduation next year from Chongqing University, which is listed in 211/985 project, I intend to further my study at your university due to your prestigious reputation in this area
With great determination and sense of miion, I devoured the pages to learn and think in and out of cla, resulting in the top-ranking score at various courses, for instance, 87% for Lawyers, Notarization and Arbitration Practice; 85% for Corporate and Busine Law; 85% for Financial Law; and 90% for Jurisprudence.Neverthele, I know that a consistent praise is far away to make my dream realized.Hence I submerged myself in the sea of reference books in the law field, such as The Concept of Law by H.L.A.Hart，An Introduction To The Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham，Justice in Robes by Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously by Ronald Dworkin, Constitution Law of United States, The laws by Plato, etc.Since many cases concerns economic disputes and my second major is economics, I also read some books in this field such as The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets by Frederic .S.Mishkin, Economics by Paul .A.Samuelson，The Problem of Social Cost by Ronald Harry Coase, etc.Apart from that, after a half year’s training, now I am very confident to pa the Judicial Vocational Qualification Test in the near future.
I had been the programme manager of SIFE (Student In Free Enterprise) programmes at my university, which is an international non-profit organization that works with leaders in busine and higher education to mobilize university students to make a difference in their communities while developing the skills to become socially responsible busine leaders.There I had leaded my team taking a series of social cases among which I would like to share the most unforgettable ones.
Our first programme was the Bangbangjun Program.“Bangbangjun” is a typical Chongqing way to call the luggage porters, who are the migrant workers.Suffering from frequent discrimination, they live their lives at the foot of the social ladder.There are some companies to manage their busine.Through on-site inspection we found that the situation was worse than our imagination in those companies.Deficiencies and shortages existed everywhere such as in legal security, internal systems, labor rights, and the financial management.With the help of the supervisor
as well as lawyers and busine consultant we tried to find universal busine modes to benefit as more porters as we can.After 3 years’ endeavor we succeeded in bringing the company with advanced busine modes and legal aids, setting up websites and establishing brands, perfecting taxing structure and internal regulations; strengthening employees’ protection and helping the company in refunding.There, my tasks were to lead my team to supervise the operation of the procedures, provide legal guidance in equity and interest allocation, social insurance and the proce of refunding.Additionally, I also did researches on the life status of migrant workers and guided them to protect their legal rights.In the end I wrote the annual report for the programme.
Much as I applied of my profeional skills and felt about the hardships of the migrant works, I congratulated myself that I had chosen such a noble cause.
Moreover, I had participated in another programme named FedEx Migrant Workers’ Children Succe Skills Program.The aim of the programme was to achieve better communications between migrant worker parents and their children, promote more educational opportunities for these children, and help them to establish a scientific life and social value.In order to lead my team to fulfill the task, I invited profeionals to come to offer psychological consultation; gave inspiring speeches, recruited volunteers to teach them social etiquette and hygiene knowledge; and organized books and stationery donation activities.
With these management experiences I had a more comprehensive understanding on how to lead a team to fulfill a task, making it so easier in the third programme called Global Entrepreneurship Week in Chongqing University.By patrols speeches and entrepreneur interviewing did we provide a communication and resource-sharing platform for university students.In this way did students could learn from the entrepreneurs’ experience and knowledge in a more vivid way.This time I followed up the whole proce from scheme, arrangement, implementing, leading the team to solve problems encountered, especially in the status limitation, content prescription, and school official approval convincing.
Besides, I took other programmes as well such as GSVC(Global Social Venture Competition), in which I was responsible for checking agreement and compliance; and EOP(Economic Opportunity Program), in which I took charge of protocoling the framework of their cooperation with primary school.
Apart from my practice experience in SIFE, I had another internship in summer vacation in Beijing’s No.1 Intermediate People’s Court, where I had learned basic criminal litigation procedures, connecting procees with public security organ and procuratorial organ and the criminal litigation defending skills.One other internship I had was in Bangbangjun Moving Company from 2009~2011.In that company I helped the staff with my profeional advice in checking agreement and compliance;
formulating the regulations, explicating the division and aign of stock rights, etc.
When I was exhausted from my work and studies, I would do some exercise to get myself refreshed and revitalized.As the reward of unceasing efforts of being the national second-level athlete, I did a good job in 2008 Swimming Competition of the University Games in Chongqing, and won the third place of 50-meter freestyle, the third place of 100-meter butterfly, and the first place of 4 × 100-meter freestyle respectively.Additionally, I also performed well in 2009 Swimming Competition of Healthy Campus Games in Chongqing, and won the first place of 50-meter backstroke, the second place of 4 × 100-meter mix-style and freestyle respectively.
As for career planning, I intend to pursue my further study of international busine law or trade law after paing the Judicial Profeional Qualification Test; In order to be a partner of law office, I would accumulating my experience mainly in non-lawsuit legal matters and foreign matters; afterwards there would be some further academic demands such as applying for Phd degree.
The legal system in P.R.China now is changing with a higher pace compared with that of the economics globalization, resulting in a greater demand for qualified lawyers who can deal with international cases such as political disputes among countries, busine disputes among enterprises, and cultural transmiion.I want to be one of them who can handle international affair easily due to their domestic education and experience abroad.Wherefore hoping that by contrasting, coordinating and coalescing could I view law and justice from a new and unique angle, I intend to apply to study at your honored university.Sincerely hope that you would spare a careful thought on my considerate decision and I am looking forward to your favorable reply.Thank you!
