https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/Your title hereVivitiCMS2018-10-10T03:51:00-07:00Your title heretag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2018-10-10:/entries/1737357LLM Human Rights, International, Spanish Mom2018-10-10T03:51:00-07:002022-07-01T12:59:35-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/445855/261;193;a74503daaad2c151a50a91fe712e51e51495a5b2.png" style="float:left">A Spanish-American woman and an attorney with dual US-Spanish citizenship, I now seek to broaden my career on an international level and prepare myself for service with a global, European-based, non-governmental organization, serving as an advocate for the rights of the elderly. Thus, I seek to earn an LLM Degree from a European Program emphasizing international law. I would be incredibly honored to be accepted to the Master of Laws Program at Leiden University because of the comprehensive nature of your overview of comparative legal systems and your priority attention to human rights.</p>
<p>I seek to earn my LLM Degree with the kind of Euro-centered focus found at XXXX: EU competition law, EU external relations law, etc. because I look forward to an EU–related legal career. I appreciate the small seminar-style classes at Leiden, with students making class presentations exchanging ideas, and helping one another to develop their research, and later submitting to pleadings. I look forward to the annual study trip to institutions in Strasbourg, Luxembourg, and Brussels, and I appreciate the connections that exist between XXXX University and a wide variety of European institutions that allow students to see what options exist and where they want to go. Most of all, I see XXXX as the best place for a complete immersion in research and learning how to research the cutting edge. I want very much to understand better how Brussels, Luxembourg, and Strasbourg work.</p>
<p>My central professional goal after completing the LLM Degree at XXXX is to go to work for an international or European, non-governmental organization, advocating on behalf of the elderly. I believe that the program at XXXX would further these goals because it would provide me with an invaluable opportunity to study and understand the European and international legal frameworks concerning human rights and how these laws work in a natural life setting; I can imagine no better place to learn about and understand the concept and historical context of these rights than in Europe, the birthplace of human rights. While I have never been to Leiden, I have read about and seen pictures of its beauty, with its picturesque canals, parks, and gardens. I like the fact that the weather in XXXX and throughout South Holland is mild throughout the year.</p>
<p>I have lived in the United States for most of my lifetime, but I also spent 20+ summers in Spain and a full year there with my children from 1997-1998. A native speaker/writer of Spanish as well as English, I am also proficient in French. Earning my LLM at the University of XXXX would enable me to most fully realize my central professional goals by providing me with an invaluable opportunity to study and become familiar with European and international legal frameworks concerning human rights and how these laws work in natural life settings. I watch with horror as the American President-Elect Trump tries to feed off of the energy of Brexit,t and I long to return to the academic community so as to participate in the intense debates of our time, over politics, economic progress, and human rights. My interest in the elderly includes the protection of elderly migrants and refugee,s which will provide me with something of great importance to contribute to discussions of human rights law at XXXX.</p>
<p>In addition to learning from the faculty, it will be a great pleasure to learn from the sheer diversity of students at XXXX and colleagues concerned with human rights from every corner of the planet. Returning to professional studies after a long absence from the academic community and an intense immersion experience in proactive, cutting-edge thinking on the human-rights issues of our day will invigorate and rejuvenate me to make my maximum contribution to society.</p>
<p>Having been raised in two cultures and two languages and traveled extensively throughout my life, interfacing with people from all over the world has helped me to develop very friendly, compassionate, and respectful. I truly enjoy communicating and working with people from all backgrounds and ages. By the time I finish my professional career in law, in another two decades or so, I will be elderly myself, timed perfectly as I see it, to make the most of those 20 years, helping people with common interests in a Grey Panther-like manner, in solidarity. As I see it, older people need to defend themselves first and foremost. I believe that I would fit in very well at Leiden, and look forward to being part of such an international community, growing together as human beings and legal professionals.</p>
<p>I did not earn my JD Degree until after my family was already raised. I thought more about making a difference in the world than just making a living. I wanted to prepare myself for a life of service to the most vulnerable and underserved members of our society, advocating on their behalf. Not long after passing the New York Bar, however, my immediate family was struck by disease,e and I soon found myself devoting a large part of my energy to the physical and emotional care of both my sister-in-law and father-in-law. II would continue to do so throughout the final years of their lives. At the same time, I also found myself called to serve as a primary care manager for my own elderly parents afflicted with a variety of ailments and physical limitations. I am proud of my service to my family, and thankful for the professional direction that these experiences have provided me in my quest to become a recognized expert and a move,r, and a shaker in the area of human rights law as it affects the elderly. I am now very well-read in the size of the legal protection of the elderly, and have had several opportunities to act as an advocate on their behalf. As I am well aware of the multiple forms of discrimination that older people face, I find protecting their human rights to be especially rewarding and fulfilling on personal and professional levels.</p>
<p>I have expanded my mediation training and became certified as a mediator in Ohioans Florida. I have also had the opportunity to do freelance legal work abroad in the area of property law. During my time as a law student, I was also very much involved in the Women’s Immigrant Rights Law Clinic, helping victims of human trafficking and advocating on their behalf. In my work as a mediator as well, I deal with many cases of divorce and other family issues, including domestic violence.</p>
<p>I want to put my LLM Degree from XXXX to work,k opening doors that will allow me to have a significant impact on policy formation on an international level, and to raise awareness of the evils of elder abuse and neglect, positioning myself in such a way as to engage citizens and policymakers to take action to minimize all types of abuse and neglect that affect older people: psychological, physical, financial, etc. - active or passive. I want to be at the forefront of exploring how to enhance our protection of older people’s rights within the context of existing human rights standards, implementing such protections in both public and private sectors. I would also like to create programs to educate the elderly so that they can become more aware of their legal rights, and to enable and empower them to protect their capacity to exercise these rights.</p>
<p>It is imperative to use legal research as a tool geared toward progressive social change in the area of elder care and protection – resulting in the enhanced international debate concerning the human rights of older persons. I also believe that there needs to be an increased advocacy for the adoption of international human rights standards that adequately address the issue of elder rights by focusing on the contributions of older people.</p>
<p>Older people face genuine challenges in terms of human rights. These include discrimination, poverty, violence as well as abuse, all too often at the hands of family members—Manyneedf our solidarity, new, specific measures,s and services designed to protect their interests and well-being. I look forward to intense research for the balance of my professional life in this area, always in search of novel and creative solutions that result from conversation and debate, a search for consensus.</p>
<p>I thank you for considering my application to XXXX University.</p>
tag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2018-09-17:/entries/1726261LLM Masters Tax Law, Chinese Businessman2018-09-17T04:28:00-07:002018-09-17T04:48:45-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/441708/358;238;8a672ab3a0e3fd2787cbda426299b5ad060f3400.jpeg" style="float:left">XXU is my first choice among LLM programs for a variety of reasons, most of all my profound admiration for the thoroughly international character of your program and the fact that my special area of interest, Tax Law, is figured quite prominently in your curriculum. In fact, I see XXU Law as the most prestigious Tax LLM program in the world with the most course offerings incorporated into the curriculum.</p>
<p>Currently finishing my JD Degree this coming May of 2017 at Vanderbilt University, I hope to begin your program at XXU and earn the LLM Degree so as to have the opportunity to develop my special passion for Tax Law in particular. I also love New York City and see XXU as the center of the world, not only with respect to business and law but also culture. Born and raised in China, I feel at home in the vibrant Chinese community of NYC and look forward to utilizing the vast educational resources of the city.</p>
<p>My goal upon entering my JD program was to become a corporate lawyer specializing in Chinese business transactions. After taking a number of tax law courses and serving as a summer associate at Jones Day, however, I fell in love with the amazing world of taxation and redirected my commitment to practice in this exciting area Federal income tax and corporate tax were my favorite classes in law school and I appreciated the internal logic of federal income tax buried in the complicated legal framework. I enjoy the constant interaction of form and substance in corporate taxation. Although the voluminous IRS regulations were daunting at times, the thrill of finally solving a difficult problem set was definitely worth the days of relentless hard work, especially since I was rewarded with a Scholastic Excellence Award in Corporate Taxation.</p>
<p>My long term goal is to become recognized as an international expert in the area of tax law and tax policy, with a special focus on taxation in terms of distributional justice: who should be taxed, how much should we tax, based on what standard should we tax, etc., and the huge implications that these questions have for society. I hope to someday become a partner in an international law firm that does business in both the USA and China. I look forward to contributing to the shattering of glass ceilings for Chinese women in the international business world and to serve as a role model for those who have the talent and ambition to practice in the US as well as China.</p>
<p>I have interned for the past two summers, for a law firm and then a corporation. This will also help me to hit the ground running and excel at NYU. I adore tax law and that is my primary asset and I feel strongly that I will excel at the analysis of tax law from multicultural perspectives.</p>
<p>I thank you for considering my application to XXU.</p>
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tag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2018-07-26:/entries/1703646LLM Labor Law, Sociology, African Studies2018-07-26T05:18:00-07:002022-07-01T11:54:01-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/435833/507;239;48cc86fc9ccbb72147e8dc04d8f676bc72638ece.jpg" style="float:left; height:208px; width:441px">I came from a family of social activists and became involved myself at the age of fourteen. My underprivileged background and ethnicity made me personally and acutely aware that many people suffer considerable injustices in their working lives, and I wanted to help to minimize those injustices. Initially, I was unsure how I might do so apart from participation in various campaigns. I became deeply involved in several campaigns to improve working conditions and pay for underprivileged and under-represented workers. I was regarded as being very effective in these efforts and took up the offer of employment with one campaigning organization.</p>
<p>My significant voluntary and professional experience involved much liaison with influential and dedicated specialist lawyers, and this has convinced me that I can maximize my own usefulness in my chosen field by acquiring high-level knowledge and skills in the discipline of Labor Law. Ultimately my ambition is to found a non-profit organization to provide excellent legal assistance to workers without access to it.</p>
<p>My voluntary work has involved some successful ‘advocacy.’ For instance, the first campaign in which I was involved related to truck drivers and environmental justice. This was of particular interest to me as my father is a truck driver, and so I was aware of some of the injustices that arise in that industry. I was chosen to advocate for this cause at local town hall meetings and on a higher platform that eventually led me to lobby for the reason in Washington, D.C. It was on this trip to Washington that it first occurred to me that to advocate change successfully, it is necessary to be aware of current laws and the thinking behind their creation.</p>
<p>I was raised by a mother who dedicated her studies to health care and a father who, though highly intelligent, became a truck driver due to economic pressures but who continues to enthusiastically self-educate. Both have been inspirational figures who have inspired in me both a passion for social justice and for learning.</p>
<p>I am aware that those with a passionate desire to further social justice aims can sometimes be highly impatient and dogmatic. ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day, and I am convinced that patient determination with a will to put things right in well-considered ways is the most effective route to improvements. I am also convinced that advances in social justice will be more easily achieved by persuading employers of the significant financial advantages to them of a safe, well-paid, and contented workforce than by confrontation. However, I certainly see the latter as an option when faced with unreasonable intransigence. </p>
<p>I am also very conscious of the fact that increasingly rapid advances in technology will have a significant impact on work availability, practices, environments, and the use of labor and that the Labor Lawyer will need to be aware of advances and their potential significance to workers and that this will apply in most industries. As mentioned, my father is a trucker, and I am aware that the use of drones is likely to have an increasing effect on the distribution of goods as the internet has had on the distribution of services.</p>
<p>I have happily studied, worked, and socialized with people of many ethnic and social backgrounds. I enjoy learning about new cultures and sharing information about my own. I am also well-traveled, having visited The Ukraine, Turkey, Poland, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, in addition to the Dominican Republic. I spent several months in The Ukraine, Turkey, and Poland and was fascinated by the differences in culture, working lives, and social attitudes that I encountered there. I certainly intend to travel as widely as possible in the future. I also take a close interest in the work and reports of the International Labor Organization. I am interested in the potential for greater cooperation between specialists worldwide to identify ‘best practices and successful case law.</p>
<p>I am fully fluent in English and Spanish. I hold two bachelor's degrees in Sociology and African Studies. I excelled academically and gained commendable results in my studies to date, and I intend to do so again, if selected to join the program. My passion for the subject, underpinned by natural characteristics of intellectual curiosity, diligence, and perseverance in all my endeavors, will, I am convinced, enable me to excel within the program. I also believe that my voluntary and professional background is highly relevant to the program and will allow me to ‘add value’ by sharing the fruits of that work. I also look forward to receiving the benefit of the experiences of my fellow students.</p>
<p>I have carefully researched the programs available with the criteria of an impressive faculty, a challenging but supportive academic environment, and externship opportunities. I have concluded that your own program is an ‘excellent fit.</p>
<p>The program I join must provide a challenging but supportive academic environment, and it is for this reason that I am making an application for this program.</p>
<p>I can assure the reader of a determination to participate in the program with exceptional diligence and enthusiasm, if selected, and I thank you for considering my application.</p>
tag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2018-06-11:/entries/1686822JD Environmental Law, Canada2018-06-11T03:24:00-07:002022-07-01T11:05:53-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/429597/320;230;6ae17d22bed760404edead739a40b9a49353dd17.jpg" style="float:left; height:213px; width:296px">I will never forget Christmas when I was nine years old, seeing the gifts wrapped in garbage bags. One after the other, my mother handed out our gifts until we each had a few. Before we knew it, there was colored paper and tape everywhere. <em>Woah!</em> I had just received a Sony Walkman cassette player for Christmas. I cherished that Walkman for years, and for that brief moment in my childhood, I was thrilled.</p>
<p>It was not until much later in life that I realized those gifts we received that day were from the Salvation Army and that my mother did her best to shelter us from our true poverty. This is one of the factors that led me to a life of public service, wanting to give something back to those who gave to me when I needed it the most. Now, as a 35-year-old married father and full-time professional, I enjoy the profound privilege of working for the Province of XXXX and the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change. When I began, I was the youngest Investigator in the Province and the only one of Indian descent. My colleagues and I are responsible for enforcing the Environmental Protection Act, the XXXX Water Resources Act, and various other pieces of environmental legislation to protect the public interest. I am honored to say that I have now spent nearly ten years enforcing environmental laws at both Provincial and Federal levels representing both Environment Canada and the XXXX Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change as an Investigator.</p>
<p>My work in environmental law enforcement over the past decade has provided me with a front-row seat concerning the ecological and related legal challenges that we face in Canada, as Canadians and as stewards of a vast but critical component of our country. In addition to acquiring knowledge in the core competencies of note-taking, evidence collection, and the rules of evidence, I have come to appreciate, in particular, the importance of cultivating empathy and the building of rapport when dealing with witnesses and suspects alike, both vital to success in the enforcement of the law.</p>
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XXXX Hall is my first choice among law schools simply because I see the program as the preeminent leader of public interest law: with world-renowned faculty including local, practicing lawyers and judges. XXXX is exactly what I am seeking to attain the optimal platform for career advancement as a public defender of Canada’s natural environment. The richness of your course offerings, especially in the area of environmental law from an international perspective, along with resource management, makes me feel most eager to begin. I am committed to protecting the environment for the citizens of this province, and it is for this reason that I am applying for admission to your program.</p>
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<p>Furthermore, XXXX University is an ideal location since it is not far from my home; thus, I will have the full support of my family and be able to attend to my obligations in this regard. XXXX’s generous extended time program option is ideal for a working individual, completing the JD over six years with special permission. This option has me incredibly excited because, with this extended period, I do not doubt in my mind that I can continue to grow and increase my professional contribution as an Investigator of environmental violations for the Province of Ontario at the same time that I earn the JD. I see a nice synchronicity between my service and my studies, my studies reinforcing my capacity for excellence on the job and my work helping me to excel as a student, making timely, current, and intelligent contributions to discussions of issues in environmental and public interest law at XXXX Hall.</p>
<p>XXXX is also my first choice for Law School because I see it as the finest in the country in terms of promoting progressive, public interest law, particularly concerning the environment. A JD from XXXX will provide me with an excellent education, an unparalleled degree, and all the tools and resources needed to distinguish myself as a public defender. I want to devote my professional life to being the most potent Eco-champion possible. Earning a JD focusing on environmental law will allow me to transition from Investigator to Prosecutor while continuing to build on my extensive experience enforcing Canadian ecological laws, putting to good use the knowledge base that I have acquired in this area. In this way, I will be able to realize my full potential.</p>
<p>Looking back, I am amazed that I have come so far. I was raised in an immigrant home in one of the most challenging areas of Toronto. I had no nuclear family. I did not have access to a trust fund, scholarships, and indeed no savings. That was the reality of coming from a household where alcohol abuse and domestic violence were the norms, not the exception. This helps to account for why I did not begin to break out academically until high school. In 2001, after successfully graduating from community college, it was satisfying to know that my hard work had paid off and that I had been accepted to the XXXX at Mississauga.</p>
<p>To support me in college, I worked evenings, weekends, and full-time during my summers at a Weston Bakeries’ Distribution Centre I affectionately called ‘the Freezer.’ Tedious and bitterly cold, I was satisfied knowing I was supporting myself and helping my mother. My cumulative GPA suffered as a result, but I feel strongly that my GPA from a decade ago is not an accurate reflection of my ability to excel in law school or my work ethic. Most of all, what will inspire and enable me to distinguish myself at York University is the decade of public interest experience that I now have under my belt protecting our natural environment. This will empower me to hit the ground running and will allow me to prove myself through passion, heart, and hard work.</p>
<p>I have learned much since I finished my undergraduate studies at the XXXX a decade ago. Now I am ready to complete my dream and earn a JD so that I, too may reach out for public service at the highest levels, bolstered by the finest qualification available.</p>
<p>My story is not one of privilege or prestige. It is, however, a story about determination and the will to succeed. It is these character traits that I have carried with me and it is these traits which will serve me well going forward.</p>
<p>I thank you for considering my application to XXXX University.</p>
tag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2018-06-10:/entries/1686459MA Human Rights Law, Indian Woman2018-06-10T02:36:00-07:002022-07-01T11:00:40-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/429357/420;120;7ebe2346fc0a0d2024925fa7feed4bd78cc12708.png" style="float:left">A sensitive and socially conscious woman from New Delhi, India, now 23, I take pride in my empathy for the least fortunate members of our community, especially those that are victims of injustice. For years now, I have looked around me and felt passionate empathy, in particular, with women who suffer from violence and oppression as women, as females. In addition to my native India, I am well read about the plight of women in nearby Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.</p>
<p>XXXX is my first choice for earning the MA Degree in Human Rights Law because of the depth and breadth of your curriculum, and its global nature, which even includes a focus on non-Western and mainly Islamic legal and moral philosophies and legal structures. Earning the MA Degree in Human Rights Law at XXXX will provide me with the optimal opportunity to learn everything that I can about the liberation struggles of women worldwide, their victimization, and their resistance to that victimization. I want to put the undergraduate degree that I have earned in History to work at the service of the dismissal of women, always in search of strategies for tomorrow hidden in the pages of yesterday's struggles.</p>
<p>What I value most is compassion, and I see it as my principal source of strength and motivation, driving me forward each day to prepare myself for a lifetime of service to victims of injustice. I seek a lifetime of service in defending and advocating for human rights, especially the human rights of women and girls. I look forward to intensively cultivating my appreciation for the evolution of notions of human rights and dignity in a historical context. I do so in preparation for a life of activism on behalf of those who suffer and are largely voiceless.</p>
<p>Like Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, I see hunger, not as a by-product of the unavailability of food; but, instead, as the unavailability of an entitlement of food. Working with an impoverished community underserved in every way, for two years, in Pulprahladpur, New Delhi, I have realized. I have become increasingly concerned about how Indian society, like many other societies of developing countries, ha largely failed at fostering a culture of self-reliance through public education. It pains me deeply to see millions of children in India living in the streets and not attending school, millions of child laborers subject to deadly diseases and early deaths; many men and women as well subjected to various forms of exploitation and even torture.</p>
<p>Earning a degree in history has given me a sophisticated understanding of how society has developed through the ages, especially concerning the position of women as members of caste systems or racial hierarchies. Earning my master's in Human rights will help me to understand better the complex roles of international organizations in uplifting underprivileged communities. I feel strongly that human rights education is our foremost tool for building more just societies. Creating human rights pedagogies and training teachers in this area, as I see it, is the best way to cultivate more tremendous respect for human rights on a global level. I especially look forward to studying how UN organizations can help in fighting human rights violations and encouraging more immense respect for human rights as part of grassroots cultural movements.</p>
<p>I look forward to broadening my understanding of the complexities of human rights violations not only in the context of poverty but also in terrorism, war, and migration.</p>
<p>Completing your program will help me to much better understand the broader historical, the political, social, and moral context of human rights, biases including my own, and how ideology perpetuates injustice. I look forward to listening to many of the world’s most outstanding speakers at the University of London, engaging in national and international debates about human rights, especially in the context of non-Western and developing countries. </p>
<p>Since graduation in 2014, I have been serving as a Fellow with Teach for India and teaching children in a government school for the children of low-income families in an underprivileged community. I also live in this community and have made it my own, getting to know many of the families quite well. I want to continue to think globally for the balance of my professional life, while always staying very busy at the local level, giving my all to the institution that I serve.</p>
<p>The children that I teach have inspired me to think and feel deeply about the human rights of children, in particular, women, and especially migrants and refugees that are particularly vulnerable. My students provide me with a daily injection of hope and a sense of possibility.</p>
<p>I thank you for considering my application.</p>
tag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2018-03-30:/entries/1662351LLM Human, Women’s Rights, Brazilian2018-03-30T03:06:00-07:002022-07-01T10:19:15-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/419562/300;200;716fc74ef95c359b9842046270f61ba08d638d23.jpg" style="float:left">As a lawyer from Brazil and a woman who is very passionate about Law and social justice, my central professional goal is to fully prepare myself for and pass the BAR Examination and become a licensed attorney in the State of Florida. I was born in England and returned to the country of my birth in 2013, on an exploratory trip since I was thinking about expanding my legal career in England. Next, I came to Miami and ultimately had to decide between the two. I chose Miami and have now made it my home, which is the principal reason the University of XXXX is my first choice to earn the LLM Degree - not only because it is the most acceptable program in Florida with the most developed and extensive attention to questions of social justice - but also because I am married with a child and established in Miami.</p>
<p>My husband and the father of my child are Cuban; this relationship has enabled me to perfect my Spanish language skills and to learn a great deal about Cuban Americans and their long and poignant story here in Miami. Perhaps the most significant skill that I will bring to your program is being fluent in Spanish along with my native Portuguese, thus positioning me well for a career of service to the minority members of my community. They are originally from Latin America or the Caribbean.</p>
<p>Earning a fully international LLM Degree at the University of XXXX will provide me with the opportunity to become as well versed as possible in how the law is practiced in America, not only learning from my classes and my professors, but also from exposure to students of law and legal professionals from all over the world. I also appreciate the fact that some of the credits that I earn in your LLM program can be applied later on if I should be accepted to the JD program at the University of XXXX.</p>
<p>Miami is not only home to the Cuban Diaspora, but it is also the destination of choice for visitors from Brazil as well as those who decide to stay and make the USA their home. Brazilians that can afford to do so, fly to Miami to go shopping. I look forward to many decades of networking and labor on behalf of Brazilians, Cubans, and others – especially speakers of Portuguese or Spanish and people originally from Latin America, supporting and networking with the non-profit organizations that they create.</p>
<p>My special training in Brazil was in the area of Labor Law and Human Rights, and I gained volunteer and research experience in Labor Law in Brazil. I look forward, in particular, to working with a non-profit organization after earning a professional degree in America. I am particularly impressed by the work of Women for Women International, working with woman victims of war and other women who have been victimized or marginalized.</p>
tag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2017-12-29:/entries/1646720LLM Human Rights and Social Justice, Columbian2017-12-29T08:08:00-08:002022-07-01T09:34:10-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/402746/360;216;7406698d8ca9bff85a10b83005fa2001267206f0.jpg" style="float:left">Living in the USA now for just over a decade, I look back at where I came from, my homeland, Colombia, with great affection. Even here in the USA, I am defined by the fact that I am not just a Latina, but a ‘Colombian-American’ woman. Not all is wonderful about the land from whence I came since it is perhaps the most historically violent of all Latin American countries, at least except Mexico. Social injustice has been widespread in Colombia throughout its history, including when I was growing up. My father is the primary role model and inspiration for my dedication to Law. As an attorney with a social consciousness, living in a very violent society, I was born into and raised in a sort of dangerous adventure, of survival, change, and almost constant fear, which people seldom talked about.</p>
<p>I initially came to the USA in 2005 after finishing my undergraduate studies in Law in Colombia, primarily to improve my English. I thought that it would make me more competitive in the job market when I returned. My parents had divorced, which added to the economic strain. Conveniently, I had an aunt in Stamford, Connecticut, who I lived with for the first year and a half of total English immersion. Soon, I would meet the wonderful man with whom I would start my family, and I am now a US citizen with a very supportive husband who adores and helps me care for our three beautiful little boys. Thus, I feel that I have the time, space, maturity, energy, and drive to excel as a graduate student in Law here in America. The LL.M in Human Rights and Social Justice at the University of XXXX is my first and only choice for graduate school because I do not want to study online; instead, I am keenly looking forward to the traditional classroom experience as a law student. This is especially true, I think, because of the area in which I seek to learn the most, human rights, and I look forward to interacting with students from around the world at UC to share their human rights stories and ideas.</p>
<p>I hope very much to earn the LLM Degree with a focus on Human Rights and Social Justice at UX so that I will be able to maximize my contribution at my place of current employment, serving as a Family Violence Victim Advocate. Over the past decade living in Connecticut, with each passing year, I see more and more recent immigrants who are primarily, if not exclusively, Spanish-speaking. The need is great for bilingual specialists who are well trained to help these people. Many of my clients come here as wives and do not know the man to whom they are married very well before they come here. Often the age difference is significant. Many feel trapped and helpless when the relationship goes sour, and the man becomes violent, finding themselves at considerable risk with nowhere to turn.</p>
<p>There is a huge Latino population in the area that we serve, and it pleases me greatly that I have the opportunity to use my Spanish every day at work, on the telephone as well as directly with Spanish-speaking clients. I translate for clients at court proceedings or during our monthly legal clinics when clients meet with pro bono Attorneys to get free consultations about family, civil and criminal issues. At the Agency where I am currently working, we have a program called Esperanza (Hope), that is targeted to Latino clients - a 24/7 Spanish Language Hotline for victims of Domestic Violence that also includes a Spanish webpage with community resources and 24/7 chat. We also run weekly Spanish support groups for Latino clients, and I personally have been giving presentations concerning the rights of victims of a crime. </p>
<p>During the last year of my studies in Law at the Sabana University in Colombia, I volunteered for a free legal clinic providing services to low-income residents in the areas of conflict mediation and labor law. This was an excellent opportunity for me to interact with a diverse population, practice my compassion, and listen to the issues of those who are underserved in terms of legal representation. I look forward now to continuing to learn as a volunteer as well as a student at UX and taking advantage of the vast Public Service opportunities that exist at the University of Connecticut, including partnerships with organizations based in Hartford.</p>
<p>My ultimate dream job would be to someday work for the United Nations in the area of empowerment of women and the promotion of gender equality. Returning to Colombia at some point in a professional capacity would be delightful, or Latin America, more generally speaking. There is much work to be done in Latin America in response to horrific levels of violence against women – an issue that has only recently begun to be addressed.</p>
<p>I thank you for your consideration of my application to the University of XXXX.</p>
tag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2017-09-17:/entries/1596811LLM, London, UAE, Refugees, European2017-09-17T04:28:00-07:002022-07-01T13:54:49-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/386186/347;346;bc00b2b349c629cd70918cd296b12701dbb94f61.jpg" style="float:left; height:247px; width:248px">Each day shortly after rising, I look at my face in the mirror, and I allow my gaze to linger for a few moments of reflection. I see the beginning of a young, reflective, and quite determined European man. Perhaps the characteristic of my face that takes center stage in my young life at this point is a profound appreciation for all the things that money can buy. In fact, I have to confess that my keen desire for economic prosperity was the principal driving force behind my choice of Business and Law as the subjects of my formal education to date. Increasingly, however, as I mature, I see two faces in the same mirror, one young and one old. My older face is more concerned with justice and humanity and less with wealth and pleasure, finding its grace in the struggle to protect the poor and vulnerable; its expression in my passion for learning as much as I can about the political and economic foundations of what is generally referred to as “Europe’s refugee crisis.” On one face, I want to redistribute wealth, especially in my favor. With the second face, I want to be more humane and to protect those innocent people - especially families with children - fleeing war and a nearly certain annihilation across broad swaths of the globe from Africa to Afghanistan.</p>
<p>I hope to attend XXXX for Graduate School in Law for various reasons. First and foremost, I want to earn my LLM in a fully English environment. What makes XXXX my first choice in England is the way that I see your Law Program as at the forefront or vanguard in the areas of forced migration and refugee law. I also appreciate the atmosphere of concern over the refugee crisis that one finds at King’s College London, with prayer vigils and marches, guest speakers, etc. Perhaps my deep and abiding sense of wanting to protect the rights of immigrants is ultimately grounded in the fact that I was born in Switzerland to a Spanish mother and an Italian father, both of them immigrants to Switzerland at the time. We settled in Spain when I was 14, and I graduated with honors in 2004 and enrolled in the local university to study for the joint BBA/LLB. As a result of earning a scholarship, however, I could move up the Spanish food chain and transfer to the same program at the elite Pontifical University of Comillas in Madrid. I was also very fortunate, in 2010, to spend my penultimate semester in the US at the University of San Diego, where I completed the courses for my Finance minor.<br>
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Spending the summer of 2010 as an intern with the Banking Team at XXX in Spain, I decided to join them as a trainee after graduation in September of 2011. I took three different seats in Corporate, Capital Markets, and Litigation, respectively, and was chosen for the corporate team. Three-and-a-half years later, I received an offer from the Abu Dhabi XXXX Council, one of the leading sovereign wealth funds of the AD government, which I decided to accept. Since December of 2014, I have been working for the in the UAE as a Junior Legal Counsel, advising investment teams, drafting letters, reviewing agreements, etc.</p>
<p>After completing your LLM Program, I plan to get a job with a law firm in London and practice in London or New York to gain further experience in new contexts that are central to my interests as an international corporate lawyer, finance, investment, and chasing the money flow. XXXX has one of the best legal career fairs in the UK.</p>
<p>Where I live and work in the UAE, I am first and foremost non-Arab, then Western, and only finally European. One of the main reasons why I am optimistic concerning my acceptance to a program as competitive as XXXX London is my now extensive exposure to the financial and political heart of the Arab world, and sustained dialogue on a host of issues. I study them, as a European student of the Arab world, mentality, and comfort zone concerning trade and commerce. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), of which the UAE forms a prominent part, has received a lot of criticism for not taking in more refugees. One of the downsides of living in the GCC is that there is no transparency, and the press is obviously monitored - so it is difficult to get the complete picture of what is happening. I am also deeply concerned with the crisis in Yemen, currently investing a lot of my free time raising funds for the UK-based NGO called Friends of XXXX, which promotes global philanthropic, educational, and medical links with this province, the poorest of seventeen provinces and one of the most underdeveloped regions of the world. As elsewhere, the poor bear the brunt of the violence. Recent events in Brussels and Paris have made clear how the security of Europe is ultimately dependent on European efforts to bring peace to the Middle East.</p>
<p> I want very much to be part of these efforts, and I thank you for your consideration of my application.</p>
tag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2017-06-19:/entries/1543786LLM, UK, Applicant from Bahrain2017-06-19T23:16:00-07:002022-07-01T13:58:20-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/371259/506;210;f9000904c55133c4e2452059f4b54b4d4afb7cc4.jpg" style="float:left">The ethos of hard work, determination, and fairness is ingrained in me through the influence of family members, primarily that of my grandfather. He was a very hard-working small trader who, through his diligence, determination, and reputation for fair dealing, advanced to owning one of the most successful businesses in our home country, Bahrain. He has taught me to love a challenge and to regard obstacles as things to be overcome, rather than barriers to further progress on life’s journey, and to seek to excel rather than merely to succeed.</p>
<p>It was my childhood ambition to be a leader in my country and make a significant contribution to the well-being of its people. I made no secret of my dream, which most people around me regarded with amusement. For a time during my teen years, I lost my focus and spent far too much of my energy in pursuing my love of sports, travel, and in socializing. Then the realization came to me that I was ‘at a fork’ in the road and that I must either begin to pursue my childhood ambition or to abandon it consciously.</p>
<p>I decided to pursue my ambition and to do so with energy, determination, and single-mindedness. My family, along with many others, suffered significant financial losses during the recession of 2008, and some of the casualties were caused by the lack of a sturdy legislative framework for banking regulation and financial corruption. For this reason, I chose to study Law.</p>
<p>I chose to seek admission to the undergraduate program in Law at the University of XXXX in England. To be admitted to the program, it was necessary to pass the UK ‘Advanced Level’ examinations. I studied ‘with a will’ and surprised those around me with my rediscovered sense of direction. I was top of my class and obtained first-class results, and so I was admitted to the program from which I expected to graduate in 2016.</p>
<p>I have sacrificed most of my vacations to take every opportunity available to work in a legal environment. I have been fortunate to have been exposed to a wide variety of work and training, both in England and Bahrain. I have enjoyed all these experiences, which have fully confirmed me in my choice of law and have provided an excellent base for further studies and my future career.</p>
<p>My most exciting experiences were gained at XXXX LLP, a major international firm, and at the Arabian Gulf Bank. I was an intern at the former and was involved in researching some of the financial and investment agencies working with the firm and in drafting essential agreements. I learned valuable lessons about how international firms operate, exposing me to the pressures under which lawyers in such firms work. Immediately following that internship, I was allowed to ‘shadow’ the director of the legal department at the Arabian Gulf Bank, who mentored me on individual projects and research assignments which enhanced my problem-solving and interpersonal skills.</p>
<p>I was selected, among 300 student applicants, to work in the legal department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bahrain. This experience called upon applying a high level of analytical ability, logical reasoning, and research skills. It was both demanding and highly satisfying work.</p>
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<p>I regard a country’s legal framework as being like a house. If the home is built by skilled workers using suitable materials, it will stand and protect those within it when the ‘winds come,’ as they always will. I want to acquire the advanced skills and knowledge to be one of the ‘builders’ who design and draft legislation to protect those who ‘stand within the walls, and I do not know of any institution which might be more able to equip me with those skills than your own. My particular interests are in administrative law and constitutional reform, and I look forward to the possible opportunity of assisting in research into the effects of constitutional reform in a variety of national legal regimes.</p>
<p>I am aware that there will be many well-qualified candidates seeking admission to the program. However, I believe I can ‘add value to the program, bringing a singular perspective from my own reasonably comprehensive legal and life experiences. I can promise the reader that I shall apply myself with great diligence and enthusiasm to the program for my own, my fellow students, and the School’s benefit. </p>
tag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2017-02-23:/entries/1455668JD/MS Social Policy Joint Degree, Chinese2017-02-23T02:43:00-08:002022-07-01T09:10:51-07:00<p><br style="clear: both">
<img alt="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/348904/436;115;467d1600322197b71d8d14e348314317bf684ecc.png" style="float:left">The University of XXXX is my first choice for graduate study because I want very much to study simultaneously towards both the JD Degree and the MS Degree in Social Policy. Most importantly, I appreciate how your program is highly distinguished for its interdisciplinary character, with students exposed to and engaging with political discourse, policy analysis, and the social sciences. I see your incredibly intellectually rigorous program as the optimal springboard not just for a career in law, but also as preparation for making significant contributions to public policy leadership and directions in my native China, raising public awareness and consciousness, and progressive social change resulting in more tremendous respect for human rights and more egalitarian and therefore sustainable social and economic development.</p>
<p>As a Chinese man born and raised in mainland China, my life was changed forever by the fact that I had the privilege of earning my LLB Degree in Hong Kong, thus having the invaluable experience of not only mastering Cantonese in addition to my native Mandarin, but also being at the right time and place for the fullest of observation and participation in front-line struggles for greater levels of democracy and respect for human rights. After earning my JD/MS at UXXXX, I plan to return to both Hong Kong and mainland China to work on behalf of the advancement of human rights; but not directly as a human rights lawyer since it is just too dangerous, and I am horrified by the idea of going to jail. Instead, I hope to work behind the scenes, using the internet to the fullest extent possible.</p>
<p>There is a lot at stake in the directions that China will take and a lot of support among non-profit organizations for financing greater social and economic liberties and respect for human rights. I hope to take full advantage of this interest and—on the strength of becoming a graduate of your especially distinguished JD/MS program at UXXXX—be awarded funding to build an internet platform (both a website and an app) to connect lawyers and law students with people who need legal help. I see your program as the optimal springboard for me to eventually play an essential role in the building of community law centers in Chinese universities, providing more significant opportunities for law students to acquire hands-on experience at the same time that many of our most vulnerable citizens are assisted and protected, accountability and social justice enhanced.</p>
<p>Along with several colleagues, I am already publishing translations of articles concerning the law, human rights, and political issues on public accounts on Chinese social media. I want to share more significant volumes of information as I make progress as a student in your program and beyond, and to do so in increasingly effective ways. One of the reasons why I very much fear joining the ranks of Chinese political prisoners behind bars is that there is no internet. I cannot really imagine my life or career without being online, and this is especially true since I am Chinese and the audience that I want to reach is at the same time so vast and so insulated from the outside world. The internet is our only hope of getting them.</p>
<p>Perhaps the unique aspect of my application to your highly competitive program is my volunteer experience. For more than a year beginning in 2012, I worked for an NGO called Justice Center Hong Kong, the only organization providing free legal services to refugees. My responsibilities were interviewing, researching the credibility of testimony, and helping clients to prepare their testimony. This experience has resulted in my particular passion for all issues involving refugees throughout China. It would be a special honor for me to share some of my experiences with my classmates from around the world at UPenn who share my concern for the fate of those fleeing political violence.</p>
<p>The asylum protection application was outrageously long – 7 to 8 years. Refugees are not allowed to work in HK and face discrimination at every turn. A refugee from Iran who had converted to Christianity and had to flee for his life, a Sri Lankan fleeing a bloody civil war in his country, told me: “When I am on a bus, people sometimes refused to sit by me and even move away. If my arm touches theirs, they brush themselves off as I’ve dirtied them. It hurts.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the number of refugees in Hong Kong is soaring. Most of them are from South Asia (Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh), and currently, there is an influx of Syrian refugees. I am also very much concerned with internal displacement in China, with growing economic gaps between coastal and inland regions, between cities and rural areas, and between Eastern and Western China.</p>
<p>I thank you for considering my application.</p>
tag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2016-05-02:/entries/1111442LLM UK, Business Law, Chinese Applicant2016-05-02T04:55:00-07:002022-07-01T09:08:03-07:00<p> </p>
<p><img alt="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/364268/464;189;da51e9490510ed1964512328114ba7670f03952b.jpg" style="float:left; height:165px; width:406px">The most important thing that set me on track towards becoming an international citizen and attorney was that I was fortunate to spend almost one year in Los Angeles, California, USA as an exchange student from China at only 12 years old. This did wonder for my English and enabled my international identity to blossom, especially as I traveled abroad to Australia, other parts of the USA, Europe, and Southeast Asia. I am now making excellent progress in French and look forward to using this language as well in my travels and especially professionally as an international attorney.</p>
<p>My experience with the English language and the tremendous cultural diversity of Los Angeles was complimented by another full year of study abroad at the age of 15, this time in Singapore, another highly successful social experiment concerning both the English language and cultural and ethnic diversity. I have been in England now since the age of 16, for the past six years, learning more than ever in still another great land characterized by enormous diversity and the motherland of the English language. Thus, my studies and my travels have been highly complementary in every way. In addition to my formal educational experiences as an adolescent in the USA and Singapore, I have also spent as much time as possible in Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Holland, the Netherlands, Norway, Cyprus, and Mexico. All of these experiences have heightened my desire to practice international law.</p>
<p>I seek admission to the LLM Programme at XXXX because I see your institution as the optimal venue for me to enhance my education and professional standing since XXXXLaw is recognized as one of the best centers of legal education in the world. I see your curriculum as the perfect springboard for the enhancement of my understanding of how to integrate theory with practice. Your globally renowned professors will ensure that I can fully synthesize the dynamism of the school, empowering me to validate my experiences and put them to work.</p>
<p>XXXX Law’s program and resources are the best assurance that I can complete the Legal Practice Course and obtain a two-year training contract followed by the rank of a solicitor. In this position, I will continue to work towards strengthening my knowledge base in light of global perspectives, always seeking to develop a holistic understanding of the law as it influences the lives of people and relationships between countries.</p>
<p>My parents had to surmount significant legal challenges or barriers to excel at their business endeavors fully. The difficulties and failures that they encountered and endured led them to new levels of discernment that I share as a result of living through the same experiences. Our family business ventures are no longer as precarious as they once were; nevertheless, this is another reason why I plan to earn the LLM Degree, to prepare myself better to protect the sustainability of the business affairs of my own family in China.</p>
<p>I am most interested in developing a deeper understanding of the development of Chinese society—understanding the past to understand the future better. With the rapid progress brought about by globalization, my interest has widened to include the function of the law to moderate and direct the pace of development so that the stability of society can be maintained. I have become increasingly aware, especially throughout the course of my six years in England, of how the prosperity of Western countries has been attained not only by technological advancement but also by the guidance of the rule of law. This is why I feel strongly that China, as a developing country, should value the experiences of the West and learn from the West, incorporating Western legal practices where possible into Chinese law, especially for the sake of winning our battle for greater levels of transparency and to do better at our fight against corruption.</p>
<p>I have established a solid foundation for my legal education at the University of XXXX, excelling in extracurricular activities, in particular, which were also an invaluable learning experiences. I was elected as Vice President of the Chinese Student and Scholars Association, which represents one of the most prominent ethnic groups at the University of Sussex, participating in projects that benefitted more than 1,500 Chinese students in XXXX and other Asians in Brighton as well. One highlight of my life so far was helping to organize the most prominent Chinese New Year Gala yet, in the Brighton Royal Pavilion, and was praised by the Mayor of Brighton. This gala in 2014 brought together all nationalities, presenting Chinese history and culture in the form of Arts and Entertainment. The success of this event was evidenced by our nomination as the best social event of the year at the University of XXXX. </p>
<p>Finally, my internship at a Hong Kong solicitor firm, where I wrote articles for alternative dispute resolution proceedings, provided me with the space to observe business trials first-hand. Conflict resolution, conciliation, and perhaps most of all, conflict avoidance, will be my guiding stars that inform my journey into the future armed with an LLM Degree from XXXX.</p>
<p>I thank you for considering my application to your distinguished program,</p>
tag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2016-05-01:/entries/1110844LLM Human Rights China, Applicant Couple2016-05-01T05:07:00-07:002022-07-01T08:40:49-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/364267/392;254;a3df8c8d2721efbdc69bfec7900a27241a38f9a9.jpg" style="float:left">I am in a long-term relationship with my significant other, Andrew XXXX, and we are both applying to your LLM Program at XXXX University because we want very much to study together and to live in what we see as the most exciting place in the world. We are Chinese democracy advocates who seek to learn all that we can about human rights as well as international commerce, and your program is our first choice because of how so many Chinese organizations make New York their home, in addition to the vast resources of XXU. We love the diversity and liberalism of XXU and find the prospect of attending your program enormously exciting.</p>
<p>Both Andrew and I feel very strongly about human rights in our country, China, especially Hong Kong, but also on the mainland. Perhaps particularly the continent since this is where most human rights violations occur by far. We are most interested in studying Family Law because we want to work to protect women and children, economically, and politically, but most of all legally.</p>
<p>Law has touched every aspect of my growth path, and it is continuously influencing me profoundly. I am eager to achieve an LLM degree to fulfill my short and long-term dreams, a dream that may possibly come true through hard work and passion. By completing your distinguished LLM program at NYU, I will be well along the way to achieving the cutting-edge knowledge base that will prepare me for a lifetime of service fighting injustice on an international level, especially in China.</p>
<p>I was one of the early admitted students to Queen’s University, University of Toronto, York University with scholarship, and the University of British Columbia with scholarship. I think that much of this is the result of the fact that I was groomed by my parents and my surroundings to become a lawyer from the age of 5. My first vivid memory is hearing adults describe me as “gifted to be a lawyer.” In fact, I increasingly came to respect and admire the qualities of hard-working attorneys, aggressive, and rigorous. Thus, earning my LLM Degree at XXU will represent what I see as fulfilling my destiny.</p>
<p>I participate in all national debate competitions and writing competitions. A wall full of testimonials still stands in my home. I was confident until my family decided to immigrate to Canada. Western education took me two years to adapt to, not only language and environment, but thinking strategies as well. As a typical ‘A’ student in Chinese school, I was trained for exams and competitions. There was always an answer being taught, right or wrong, true or false. In Canada, on the other hand, we were introduced to developing our own arguments. Every argument had to be supported by research, and we were left to evaluate the integrity of ideas ourselves. Soon, I came to understand that my challenge was to expand my mind to different perspectives. I attended tutorials each day after school to quickly improve my English skills. I also volunteered in the community center, and school library. I hosted a community event to raise funds for the 5.12 Szechuan Earthquake survivors. I studied Art History, Political Science, and Professional Writing as an undergraduate to broaden my horizons and get a better grasp on what I wanted to do with my life professionally.</p>
<p>Another problem I faced was that Chinese girls usually get married in their early 20s, and I came under pressure to do so as well. At this juncture, I made two critical decisions. First, I decided to walk away from Toronto, and find the deep desire of myself, doing exactly what I felt most compelled in my heart to do, the path to follow. I reaffirmed my conviction that I want to devote my life to Law, and this is why I am now finishing up my LLB studies at the University of SXXXX in England. I have learned a great deal here not only about British, UK, and European Law, but also about British and European society and culture. I now seek a similar immersion experience in Law in America, learning as much as I can, all of which will serve me well as I continue to build my career in international and family law. My boyfriend, Andrew Chong, and I both hope to be accepted to and excel at XXU.</p>
<p>I thank you for considering my application to our program.</p>
tag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2016-04-22:/entries/1104151LLM Family Law, Chinese Democracy Activist2016-04-22T00:05:00-07:002022-07-01T08:31:34-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/364264/319;253;989869f2b3b2103ed3d511363260c1dc89ad90d0.jpg" style="float:left">I am part of a long-term relationship with the love of my life, XXXX XXXX, who is also a legal professional. We are both from Hong Kong, and we are building our legal careers together. We both hope to be accepted to XXXX University as students in your incoming Fall Program. We would like very much to study at XXXX, in particular, because of your outstanding excellence in the areas of international law and human rights—in addition to the vast resources of New York City. We are democracy activists who look forward to laboring to achieve greater levels of human and political freedom throughout China, as well as our home Hong Kong—especially as through the facilitation of commercial ties and solidarity.</p>
<p>I was born and raised in Australia; my family emigrated there from Hong Kong before I was born. I did my secondary schooling in Hong Kong, however, because my parents thought that the study atmosphere would be more rigorous, especially for perfecting both my Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese—most notably my writing skills in these languages. I decided to study for my undergraduate degree in the UK to advance my horizons and work towards my goal of developing my identity and character as a global citizen.</p>
<p>Trina and I are both currently completing our LLB degrees at Sussex University in England. Studying in both England and the United States fits very well with our central life plan of becoming fully international attorneys. We see both Europe and the United States—along with Australia—as our major potential allies in what will be a long struggle for greater levels of freedom and respect for human rights in China. Thus, we look forward to having the privilege of learning in America, about America, just as we are now doing in England.</p>
<p>I have been developing a particular interest in the area of accounting for some time now, and I especially enjoyed the professional experience that I acquired in this area while still in Hong Kong. I hope to continue advancing my understanding of many of the most salient issues confronting us in accounting. I see this field as especially important to developing more significant levels of transparency, the foundation of justice. My part-time clerkship in Hong Kong helped me understand how our CPA system functions in Hong Kong.</p>
<p>My short-term objective is to graduate from XXU and pass the New York Bar Examination. My long-term goal is to distinguish myself through decades of service to a fully international law firm, perhaps eventually becoming a partner. My pro-bono work will always be what fulfills me the most, and I look forward to doing as much as I can, increasingly as my career progresses, especially in Family Law. The issue that is closest to our hearts is the issue of sexual exploitation of women and girls in China. We seek to specialize in this area and dedicate our lives to promoting progressive changes in Chinese Law that help to protect women and children from exploitation.</p>
<p>I hope to see progress toward a universal legal system within my lifetime, and I want to work towards this end by doing everything that I can to help protect children in China. I am currently doing my own research on the issue of the limitations imposed by Family Law on a separated parent’s ability to make significant life decisions that have a great impact on the child’s life.</p>
<p>I also look forward to learning as much as I can about corporate fraud and how to fight it, with particular attention to the sectors of banking and finance. In addition to what I see as significant deficiencies in Family Law in China, and how it fails to protect victims, my other area of particular focus is on what I see as another significant failure of China to achieve and enforce transparency in banking and finance.</p>
<p>Perhaps my greatest joy so far was serving as chairman of two inter-school charitable societies at my college in Hong Kong—the Interact Club and the Public Welfare Society: visiting older adults living by themselves, holding computer classes for older adults in order to assist them to stay in contact with their families, bringing disabled children to theme parks, etc.</p>
<p>I thank you for considering my application to your program</p>
tag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2016-04-10:/entries/1082900JD, Cuban, Human Rights, Education Law2016-04-10T11:59:00-07:002022-07-01T14:04:24-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/364261/347;224;ea21f442f82ffbaea33926bda7bb261d789309a9.jpg" style="float:left; height:203px; width:314px">You will undoubtedly have numerous applicants with higher LSAT scores than mine to your distinguished program at the University of XXXX. Nevertheless, I sincerely hope that my application will be looked upon favorably due to my combination of goals and experience in the area of education. Forty years old with infant twins, I need to stay in Miami, where I have the company and support of my family. Even more importantly, perhaps, I want to study in Miami because I was born and raised in Cuba, and Miami is the center of our culture. Given the demographics of the Cuban Diaspora, naturally, the University of XXXX is the center of the academic world concerning Cuban issues and activities. Your program, therefore, is my first choice.</p>
<p>I have taught Math and Computer Science to students at different levels, from Elementary School through college. Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus are the main courses in which I have a lot of experience. Throughout my career so far, I have often reflected on how teachers have to make decisions on an almost daily basis concerning the proper use of the law. It is as a teacher with years of classroom experience that I have cultivated a passionate interest for some time in the legal issues surrounding our education system.</p>
<p>The different leadership positions that I have held, in particular, have provided me with invaluable opportunities to learn about the law and its implications for our multicultural and multilingual society, generally speaking, and our educational systems in particular. Being a teacher now for more than 15 years has made me an active citizen, by learning as much as I could now for many years about current social issues that affect us all. Earning the JD Degree at the University of XXXX will provide me with the optimal preparation for giving something back to my community, Miami, Cuba, and the United States, thinking globally and acting locally, giving everything that I have to the cause of justice in education.</p>
<p>I hope that you will allow me the honor and privilege of attending your program because you want a student who is also a highly experienced educator to have the benefit of earning the JD and going on to make significant contributions to education in the area of Law—a first-generation immigrant perspective, a Cuban view, contributing to our interpretation of the complexities of the multicultural environment of the United States generally speaking, and South Florida in particular. I seek to dedicate the balance of my professional life to the defense of human rights, freedom, and liberty—particularly concerning education. My principal areas of interest in which I hope to spend decades researching and publishing are equity in education, school reform, curriculum development and applications, and testing.</p>
<p>I thank you for considering my application to your program. </p>
tag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2016-04-10:/entries/1082884JD Finance & Investment, China to Canada2016-04-10T11:50:00-07:002022-07-01T08:17:26-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/364258/275;183;8465275bf6b1ae4f54268587321dd597d2d08fa6.jpeg" style="float:left">As a young Chinese man who immigrated to Canada from China 3 years ago, I recently received my Canadian passport. I have also had the privilege of spending significant amounts of time in most European countries as well as New Zealand and the USA.</p>
<p>Next year, 2015, I will finish my undergraduate degree in Finance, and I hope to continue to study full time and enroll in your distinguished JD Program at XXXX University for the coming school year. What I have learned about history so far leads me to conclude that mutual investment between China and Canada is good for preserving world peace and enhancing our mutual prosperity. Thus, I find it a great honor and a thrill to be working towards my long-term goal of serving not only as an international legal professional, but also as a sort of commercial ambassador between Chinese business interests, on the one hand, and Canadian interests, on the other.</p>
<p>I see earning a law degree as highly complementary to the Bachelor’s Degree that I have already made in Finance, mainly since my short-term goal after completing your program is to work as an attorney in the area of investment banking, gaining several valuable years of experience in this area. This will help me to greatly expand what I have learned about investment banking as a result of my previous experience, completing an internship with XXXX in ShangHai. Next, I intend to spend several more years working as a corporate lawyer.</p>
<p>The most fundamental aspect of my long-term goal of establishing my own international law practice is the fact that I intend to become an attorney in China as well as in Canada. This will enable me to work entirely in both countries legally, avoiding complications with Chinese authorities in particular. I intend to earn my law degree in China online, and to begin studying towards this end after completing my law degree in Canada.</p>
<p>My long-term goal is to become recognized as a highly competent and expert in the area of the legal relationships between North America, on the one hand, and Asia, on the other—especially China. Since the two continents have totally different cultures and legal structures, translation between calls for creativity, and I hope to excel in this area. I have learned a great deal already about Canadian law during the course of the five years that I have now lived in Canada. Since I grew up in China, however, I also have a basic understanding of the Chinese legal system.</p>
<p>I am operating on the assumption that problems and conflicts often occur between Chinese and North American interests because of communication problems that arise from mutual misunderstandings of these two very different legal systems; thus, I hope to excel in this area, improving mutual understandings of legal systems to avoid problems and conflicts to the extent to which it is possible. Many Canadian and North American firms are worried about legal and political situations in China that leave them reluctant to do business in China. I want to work to overcome or resolve some of these impediments to doing business between China and North America.</p>
<p>I am also concerned about how it is difficult for most Chinese firms to enter Canadian and North American markets—and much of this has to do with trepidation concerning the American legal system. Nevertheless, nowadays, more and more Chinese firms are attempting to enter North American markets, and this is something that I plan to devote my career to encouraging. These firms could benefit significantly from the assistance of someone with my credentials, an accomplished and fully informed attorney in China and Canada. My professional dreams are also greatly enhanced by the fact that I am fully bilingual in both Mandarin and Cantonese. Thus, I will have a special advantage as a bilingual Chinese attorney educated in the West.</p>
<p>I thank you for considering my application to your program.</p>
tag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2016-04-08:/entries/1079120Diversity Statement International Law, Chinese2016-04-08T13:27:00-07:002022-07-01T08:14:35-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/364254/395;222;f68af74e4a92ba4425b3490a4143509343ded702.jpg" style="float:left">The most important aspect of my contribution to your distinguished LLM Program in Law at XXXX University, and the subsequent distinguished career in international business law that I hope to develop subsequently, is the fact that I am now Chinese-Canadian, having recently received my Canadian passport. In addition, however, even before immigrating to Canada, I was already someone who came from a multicultural background in China; this is evidenced by the fact that I have both Mandarin and Cantonese as mother tongues.</p>
<p>I am thankful for the opportunity that I had to grow up in a variety of areas of China, which are often much like subcultures; I was born and raised until the age of 8 in the northern part of China before moving to Guangzhou (Canton), where I spent nine years before immigrating to Canada. That is why I am part of a small minority of Chinese speakers who speak both Mandarin and Cantonese. My experiences so far, even before moving to Canada, have helped me to become sensitive to issues of multiculturalism and cultural diversity and to understand in greater depth the profound cultural differences that exist between northern and southern areas of China. I am confident that my extensive multicultural experiences will help me to succeed in your program and that continuing to increase my sensitivity to multicultural issues will also help me to excel in the areas of business and law in the international arena.</p>
<p>Another factor that encouraged my multicultural sensitivity was attending an international school in China with classmates from many other parts of the world. This also helped my English skills a great deal. I was also eager to assist foreigners with whom I came into contact with in China in their business ventures and interests, translating for them. I also went on an international service trip to Ecuador during high school in Canada, dedicated to preserving an Ecuadoran Forest Reserve.</p>
<p>Other volunteer activities that have brought me into contact with people of diverse origins and cultures have been helping to raise funds and buy supplies for a school in Guizhou, an impoverished province in China. It was first founded by a businessman who dedicated his life to the education of children in remote areas of China. I found the blog of this businessman online and followed how he was updating his life at the “hope schools” on his blog. I was touched by his kindness and decided to go to Guizhou and help them. I spent an entire month there at one point before returning to Canada to begin classes. After returning, I organized an online store selling phone accessories with all of the profits donated to the hope school in Guizhou.</p>
<p>Last but not least, my own celebration has been very much enhanced by my serving as Assistant Vice President of the International Student Association at my university. Our principal focus is on helping Chinese students to get used to their new environment in Canada. I help organize events so that new Chinese students can make friends, BBQs, and Spring Gala Festivals, etc. I am also the assistant vice president of the event department. I am also the leader of the club basketball team. Now, I eagerly look forward to an active participation in the celebration of diversity at XXXX University.</p>
tag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2016-04-07:/entries/1070568JD/MBA Joint Degree, Latin American, Caribbean2016-04-07T06:34:00-07:002022-07-01T14:09:48-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/364252/292;172;ca708641c96188f185dd46e6054446095d25dc0a.jpg" style="float:left">The joint JD/MBA Program at Florida International University is my first choice for graduate study for various reasons. Most of all, it is the thoroughgoing international focus of your program, combined with the vast resources of XXU. Since I finished my undergraduate degree at XXU, I am also well established here, and this will help me to excel in your distinguished program. In particular, I very much look forward to becoming involved with the Latin American and Caribbean Center, LACC, assisting our new director XXXX in the development of new directions and activities. I especially admire XXXX’s work with the Defense Department in response to the earthquake in Haiti. I hope to dedicate my own professional life to working to unify our region, politically and culturally but especially economically, putting a high priority on humanitarian considerations in the development of public policy.</p>
<p>Born in the United States to parents from El Salvador, I would grow up part of the time in the USA and amount of the time in Central America. This helped me to become completely bicultural as well as bilingual, something that I hope to put to good use working for the economic development of our neighbors south of the border. As someone with a solid background in business development over the last two decades, I feel strongly that my extensive professional experience will also enable me to make valuable contributions to discussions in both law and business as I hope to take full advantage of the marvelous opportunity represented by your joint JD/MBA Program.</p>
<p>I want to put my language and business skills to good use from San Salvador to Miami, working on behalf of projects that are highly socially responsible and provide valuable services or goods to their communities, promoting those companies as models throughout the Americas, with a particular focus on Central America and the Caribbean. I now have 20 years of management experience in the Printing and Marketing industries, something which will serve me well in the future. I am also a highly responsible member of my own community whose volunteer efforts have been spent primarily on church visits to families from our ward.</p>
<p> I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and spending large parts of my childhood there, beginning to recognize that I was somehow different from the light-skinned and fair-haired children around me is among my earliest recollections. Frankly, my childhood and adolescence were a troubled ones. I even ended up with a brush with juvenile detention. Much of this was due to the stress and cultural adjustment of being shipped back and forth from the US to El Salvador, changing school systems, countries, languages, and the absence of my father in my life. I finally ended up in military boarding school in El Salvador, where I learned to value and cultivate discipline and self-respect. Looking back, I think positively about my experiences insofar as they helped to make me empathetic, and to appreciate the need for a stable home for children to realize their optimal potential. I also now more fully appreciate the beauty and value of becoming completely bicultural as a child, as well as bilingual, which should also serve me well in my professional future.</p>
<p>I only really had a chance to get to know my father well when I finished high school. We will be business partners in the area of printing and marketing for the next 20 years. I became a father myself, and, in fact, my 16-year-old lives with me at present. I decided to return to school at XXU and earned my Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management partly because I wanted to be a good role model for my son. My father passed away on January 27<sup>th,</sup> 2012. He taught me the importance of helping others, and, no matter what, never giving up.</p>
<p>I have always wanted to be a lawyer from the first time I was in front of the judge as a juvenile. I see lawyers as the movers and shakers, and I want to participate in progressive change in our societies on both sides of our border in the most effective way possible. My central focus will always be on economic development, and I think that I might be most beneficial to a progressive, large corporation that wants to invest in Latin America and the Caribbean, helping to foster economic productivity in a way that respects human and labor rights and helps to improve the lives of all those involved. This is why I am most interested in the healthcare sector.</p>
<p>It is my bilingual, bicultural voice that is my most significant asset, and I have worked hard to develop my speaking skills, as noted by my being awarded first place in a contest by Toastmasters, and second place in a university speech competition.</p>
<p>I thank you from the bottom of my heart for considering my application to your program.</p>
tag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2016-04-05:/entries/1065299JD International Law, Death Penalty. African American2016-04-05T12:12:00-07:002022-07-01T07:54:01-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/364251/258;196;31d4868622805fb1d640aeda9f803fef565c848e.jpeg" style="float:left">Working in criminal justice was the goal that I set for myself while still a child, heavily influenced by America’s glamorization of law enforcement on television. As I matured into an adult, I came to see it as less and less glamorous and more and more tragic. Ultimately, I decided on a career in the military and spent 20 years as a soldier, almost all military intelligence. I am a veteran of both the Kosovo Campaign and Operation Iraqi Freedom.</p>
<p>I spent a decade grieving for my daughter from March of 1998 through April of 2008, three separate surgeries for cancer in what turned out to be only a prolongation of defeat that culminated in divorce and bankruptcy. Nevertheless, I finished my BS in Criminal Justice and Criminology from XXXX University, graduating “Magna Cum Laude” in 2007. I am a fighter, and my heart is more significant than life. As an African American and the only person to ever attend college with my family, my desire to acquire knowledge and intellect has been driven by a desire to overcome the hurdles of my race and my upbringing, making me focused and very persistent. Last year I earned my Master’s Degree with honors in Legal Studies. I have also been managing inmates in the U.S. prison system. Increasingly, to the extent to which I have the opportunity, I communicate with Latino inmates in Spanish; this is helping me to cultivate a greater sense of identity as an international citizen, and understand more fully the way that fundamental challenges in our penal system, while not color blind, still run much deeper than the color, race or ethnicity factor alone. I still have a long way to go in both Spanish and French. Still, the very fact I can communicate in both languages on some level—reading, writing, and conversation, suggests I continue striving not only to excel, but to broaden my horizons.</p>
<p>I feel strongly that African-Americans need to at least participate in, if not lead, the fight against the death penalty on the international stage. Passionate about lifelong learning and the creative struggle for justice, I fully intend to contribute 100% to the anti-death-penalty movement for the next three to four decades. It has taken me the first half of my life to know what I want to do with the second half, and I want to practice human rights and death penalty law in the international arena. I see your university as the flagship institution in this area. Thus, I sincerely hope you will look upon my application to your program with favor. African-Americans are the most overrepresented ethnicity within both U.S. and Canadian prison systems. Their disproportional representation on death row in the US is especially troubling. I ask for admission to your program so I might dedicate the balance of my professional energy to saving lives, particularly those who are innocent and have not been given just and transparent due process.</p>
<p>The University of XXXX is my first choice among JD programs because of the depth of my appreciation for your global focus on international law, which is a good fit with my intense desire to work in the area of international legal affairs. I also want to study abroad rather than in the U.S., and both U.S and Australian law are based on English Common Law. I also like the fact that your program is the oldest law school in Australia since I want very much to graduate from a distinguished program that is respected across the globe. I seek to take full advantage of how your program empowers students to build pathways toward international careers. Thus, I see the U of XXXX as the optimal springboard for making significant contributions to the global anti-death penalty movement.</p>
<p>My moral world lit up like a pinball machine in my death penalty law course. When I began that period, I was on the fence about the death penalty. By the end of the course, however, I was strongly opposed. This is because I learned about how it is unequally applied, with more black males on death row than any other race, yet we only make up roughly 12 percent of the U.S. population. We frequently hear of people being forgiven after twenty years on death row, wrongfully convicted in the first place. Most of the time, the prosecution gets these convictions from eyewitness testimony which later turned out to be false.</p>
<p>I have a special admiration for some of the defense attorneys who are defending the detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, doing the very best they can with so little to work with since their clients are being detained without formal criminal charges and limited access to counsel. I question the legal authority to detain these individuals in the first place in violation of international law and human rights.</p>
<p>Of course, there is an enormous amount of work to be done by those of us who oppose the death penalty. And given the fact that the United States Government, like China, makes no distinction concerning capital punishment between citizens and foreign nationals who have committed crimes on their soil, this strikes me as an excellent place to begin; to situate myself in the middle of the debate in the international stage.</p>
<p>I feel confident that I will succeed if accepted to your program, first working for an international law firm and hopefully developing my own later on, providing legal investigative service and counsel for international cases and issues, especially as related to the death penalty and the Innocence Project. Today I am no longer a soldier. I am more ready to do battle than ever before, however, especially if I were to be armed with the JD Degree from the University of XXXX.</p>
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tag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2016-04-05:/entries/1064852LLM, Human Rights, Egyptian Attorney2016-04-05T01:08:00-07:002022-07-01T07:44:11-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/364250/250;209;1066ec2112b05478cb9e42f503615bfe233d1ffb.jpg" style="float:left">From my early days as a high school student, going on to study law and becoming a lawyer was my driving ambition. Now, as an Egyptian attorney, I have been influenced by many of our politicians as well as professional lawyers, and I seek to enter an LLM program to find my voice as an international citizen, and to promote the integration of a new Egypt with the rest of the world. Over these last 2.5 years living in New York and laboring intensively to improve my English, I have been reflecting upon the breathtaking speed at which events in my country have been moving, in almost cyclical motions, through more significant levels of freedom followed by more repression. I feel strongly that the future of respect for human rights in Egypt will be closely tied to the extent to which Egyptian societal structures meet with success in building ties with the West. Thus, at the same time that I want to promote respect for human rights in my country directly, I also want to work hard to facilitate the growth of institutional ties between Egypt and America that will help to ensure that respect for generations to come.</p>
<p>At the center of my own professional efforts so far have been human rights, women’s rights in particular, and freedom of speech cases. I am deeply troubled by the endemic nature of corruption in Egypt, and I sincerely hope that earning the LLM Degree at XXXX University will provide me with the appropriate tool kit for laboring to help ensure responsibility and honesty in government and public administration. As a Liberal Muslim whose training lies in the area of Islamic legislation, I feel that I am well placed to think and write creatively about ways in which we might be able to protect human rights, especially women’s rights, in the face of conservative Islamic initiatives that result from democratic processes.</p>
<p>During the whole year that I spent in my hometown as a lawyer for women’s causes in the family court, I became well versed in the numerous ways that Egyptian legal codes are stacked against women. Next, I moved on to work in Cairo, handling many freedom-of-speech and torture cases under the Mubarak regime. Finally, I am among those who have put the most significant investment of time and energy into the Liberties Committee and also the Political Committee of our National Lawyers Association.</p>
<p>I have also enjoyed very much handling cases involving multinational companies in the area of international business law and arbitration. Working in this area provided a brief respite for me after working with numerous torture cases; thanks to the Mubarak regime, there were a lot of violations of the human rights, and issues of torture. I look to the United States as a world leader and, at least from my perspective as an Egyptian attorney concerned with free speech, a model society, combining freedom with respect for human rights.</p>
<p>Over the last two years, I have watched a new Egypt emerging on the television; since, by the January 2011 Revolution, I was already living in New York. I watched and agonized as more than 1000 Egyptian youth were killed because they called for democratic change in peaceful protests. Completing your program at XXU Law School will be a way for me to honor them personally. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart not only for considering my admission to your program but also as a candidate for consideration for the Thomas Buergenthal Scholarship. I feel that I am a strong candidate for a scholarship because I have an established track record in the promotion of human rights in a very critical part of the world. I have established my willingness and determination to be a lifetime professional soldier for human rights in my function as an Egyptian attorney deeply involved in the construction of a new Egypt where the human rights of all will be respected. I also feel that I deserve a scholarship because I had worked very hard as both a student and since my student days, when I became a lawyer in Egypt. I have a clear goal to participate in the building of a better society in my country, coupled with extensive experience in the defense of women, Egypt’s most vulnerable citizens, to whom I wish to develop a lifetime professional focus on their security. </p>
<p> I hope to build bridges between Egypt and not only the USA but, more specifically, XXU. I hope to learn new ways of teaching law at XXU that I can share with those in my country that are dedicated to legal education. In fact, we need to modernize not only our legal system, but our legal education as well. Clearly, Egypt is engaged in a long-term struggle. I both hope and expect Egypt to be prosperous in the creation of a fully democratic and pluralistic society that respects human rights, but we still have a long way to go.</p>
<p>Images in 2012 on the international news of a woman stripped, beaten, and abused by soldiers near Tahir Square underscores how far we have to go before women’s rights are fully respected. Egyptian society is in very urgent need of the development of a new democratic base that can guarantee full respect for the human rights of everyone, including every one of Egypt’s many minority groups, both ethnic and religious, in addition to women. Completing your distinguished LLM Program at XXXX University will help me to realize my ambition to participate in the building of a new, modern, democratic Egypt that can guarantee justice, equality, and freedom for all, including the most important guarantee that the woman will be able to get all her rights equally to the man.</p>
<p>I have known about XXXX University since I was a student in college. I profoundly admire your great history in teaching law, both the theoretical as well as the practical side. I also wish very much to take full advantage of your location in the nation’s capital as someone who hopes to build a future in politics and to become very much engaged in helping to build bridges between Egypt and the United States, through your program. Its location is both optimal for my preparation to achieve my life goals of helping my country to prosper through respect for law and human rights along with more incredible insertion into the global economy. I thank you for considering my application to your program and the XXXX Scholarship.</p>
tag:lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com,2015-02-03:/entries/783516LLM Corporate Governance, Ukrainian Applicant2015-02-03T02:00:00-08:002017-05-15T23:58:07-07:00<p style="text-align:start"><img alt="" class="" src="https://lawschoolpersonalstatementhelp.com/files/resized/364249/568;222;e2f0297f81fea9a463027ae3c1a3520b43943624.jpg" style="float:left; height:189px; width:484px"><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="color:#800000">Your world-class LLM Program in Corporate Governance & Practice at XXXX University is my first choice for further graduate study not only because of the prestige of your program, but primarily because I feel that I am the best fit for your program given my interests and experience. I seek a thoroughgoing immersion in the study of corporate governance and transactional legal practice, especially in the international arena. As an attorney from the Ukraine who has also completed a Master’s Degree in Law in the UK, I look forward to contributing to the diversity of your program at Stanford and contribute to ongoing discussions concerning the crises in my country and its impact not only on Europe but the USA as well. Earning my LLM in England taught me a great deal about the UK and also the European Union. It is my hope that earning my second LLM in the USA will teach me even more about the USA.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:start"><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="color:#800000">I seek to deepen my knowledge of common law, in particular, as well as trust law in the US and its commercial application in the areas of banking and capital markets. I received some basic background in this field while studying in London; however, I would like to continue my research so that I can use findings and knowledge to help Ukraine reform its banking system</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:start"><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="color:#800000">Although I have a stable and well paying job, working for a bank which belongs to a well-known Swedish group SEB, I want to continue setting new goals and working towards achieving them. Currently, I see little to no appropriate work opportunities in the Ukraine which would meet my career aspirations and would allow me to continue develop professionally. Partly, this situation is due to the anti-terrorist operation ongoing in eastern Ukraine which has resulted from Russia invading our territory; but it is also consequence of a rampant corruption underpinning our society in general. Almost every company (with the rare exception of a few foreign businesses) shows very little sense of corporate responsibility and many workers are treated in most unfair and inhumane ways. I observed first-hand how often people were promoted not for their good performance at work, but for some sort of personal connections or their willingness to bend moral and ethical principles to make a good impression on the boss. I do not feel comfortable in such conditions of employment. </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:start"><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="color:#800000">I really enjoyed studying in London and would really enjoy continuing my education in the US. I want to use this time of uncertainty and turmoil in my home country to continue to grow intellectually and to work to build solidarity with my besieged country abroad at the same time that I continue to enhance my qualifications and competitiveness in law, so as to return at some point with the tools that I need to fight corruption and to work to preserve Ukraine’s financial integrity. I feel that I have some valuable things to share in your program in light of my background in banking law in Ukraine and the professional skills that I have developed so far. I believe that this is a good time for me to pursue the opportunity of studying in the US.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:start"><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="color:#800000">Acceptance to XXXX’s law school would allow me achieve several of my central career goals. I want to be able to make a difference in the world. Currently, I'm helping needy and poor people, as well as some orphans. I haven't decided yet whether I will stay in the US or go back to Ukraine after I have completed my studies. To a great extent, it will depend on the political situation in my country. In addition, it is unclear whether recent moves of our new government will produce any tangible results with respect to resolving the crises and protecting the security of our people. In any case, I will continue helping vulnerable members of the Ukrainian society. I feel that I want to be able to help my country more by becoming as well educated as I can, maybe someday I will be in a better position to improve people's lives there. It may be possible to better effect progressive social change and respect for human rights from outside my country than within.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:start"><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="color:#800000">I <span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">seek to acquire an extensive knowledge of US laws, particularly with respect to capital markets. I have about 10 years of experience in the field of banking and finance so I am well aware of the underdevelopment of these sectors in Ukraine. The major part of our legal system has been either inherited from the Soviet times or is generally outdated and does not correspond to modern banking practices, allowing banks to go bankrupt, with corrupt banking officials stealing the life savings of many thousands of people and transferring the money overseas. After the Maidan revolution last winter, some of such fraudulent schemes involving the former President and his “family” were revealed. I have even become victim myself of bank fraud. Currently, the bank is under temporary administration, with thousands of depositors—myself included—left with little hope of recovering their funds. Thus, I take this quite personally. Our banking system requires an enhanced asset protection mechanism that would allow assets to be traced after they have been misappropriated and squandered by the bank’s managers or owners. In my opinion, the whole bulk of regulation governing US and English trusts may be applicable to the Ukrainian legal system. Thus, I look forward to completing my LLM Degree at XXXX so as to learn how to make my maximum contribution to fighting bank fraud in the Ukraine.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:start"><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="color:#800000"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">I thank you for considering my application to XXXX.</span></span></span></p>