My professional strengths, however, go way beyond my excellent academic records. Every summer vacation became the best opportunity for me to undertake internships to improve myself. I was lucky to have come under the guidance of three important “mentors”, three lawyers who specialized in criminal lawsuits, civil lawsuits and real estates lawsuits. Every internship proved very rewarding and fruitful.

The more I practiced, the more I felt that the tremendous gap between the American laws and the Chinese laws is impossible to be abridged within a short time. China’s political and social system is very different from Western countries. China, as a new WTO member, has just started changing from planned economy to market economy. Naturally, it is unrealistic for western countries to require Chinese government to abide by strictly western regulations represented by market economy. Thus for China, to construct a legal framework in strict accordance with WTO regulations has become the most urgent problem. The precondition for meeting this challenge is to redefine the government-market relationship so as to allow Chinese companies to withstand the tests of international economy in the absence of traditional governmental protection and to expand themselves by taking advantage of the huge international market. China’s Economic Law, which fulfills part of Constitutional functions, will make a unique contribution if it can redefine the relationship. It will create the flowering of economic legislation. For China’s legal system to conform to international practices, China also has a lot to do in the field of protecting the intellectual property rights. Moreover, China’s accession into the WTO means that

China will face more international trade disputes. China is rather backward in the legislation concerning the dispute-solving mechanism, a fact which has resulted in the unfair treatment against Chinese companies by Western countries in the name of “anti-dumping”. This situation calls for the emergence of a number of legal professionals who have a profound knowledge both of English language, international economic law, the actual conditions in China, the mode of operation of international laws and legal systems.

Under such circumstances, in order for China to adapt its legal system and some of its social practices to the conventions of the international community, it is imperative that we learn from and borrow from the legal system and legal ideology of the United States, the country with the best developed legal system, as well as other developed western countries. Therefore, I am eager to undertake a degree program of Doctor in Jurisprudence in a prestigious American law school and I see good career opportunities in China with such a quality education. Although it is no easy job for a girl like me to leave my home to pursue the rather challenging JD program, I have full confidence to overcome all sorts of difficulties. I had already learned to be independent and self-reliant as a little girl because both my father and my mother left for Hong Kong when I was very young, leaving me on the mainland. As a teenager, I had to take care of myself, doing all the house work besides keeping up with my studies. I used to cry a lot but soon I drew inspirations from the example of Mrs. Thatcher, the former British prime minister. In this way, I have developed a strong self-motivation in whatever I do and the determination to do it well. I believe that those important personal qualities will contribute to my making major achievements in my future career.liuxuepaper.com