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Sample Personal Statement for Magister Juris
As one of the most outstanding students of the Department of Law of
Peking University, I have achieved a special reputation and status
among my peers on the strengths of my important research abilities and
my personal talents. Apart from winning prizes and awards in various
treatise-writing contests, I am presently the sole candidate from my
department nominated to run for the Top Ten Most Outstanding Students
of the University for 2003. Apart from my natural talents,
perseverance and diligence are the only factors that I can think up to
account for all the accolades and academic achievements I have made. I
believe that everyone is created equal and only through extra efforts
can there be extra rewards.
Currently, I am a senior student of Peking University, arguably the
best university in finance and economics in China. What is special
about my program is that my study of law has been closely integrated
with finance and economics. This makes it possible for me to establish
a solid foundation across those three fields. Naturally, courses in
economics, finance and in law such as Accounting, Money and Banking,
Macroeconomics and Microeconomics, Company Law, Insurance Law,
Maritime Law, Taxation Law, Case Study of Contract Law, Financial Law,
International Trade Law, Public International Law, International
Economic Law, and Assets Evaluation are the subjects that have
fascinated me most and in which I have excelled most. My strong
background in mathematics has led me to perform particularly well in
economics-related courses. This is why I can achieve the top 5 ranking
in the entire grade in terms of overall academic performance.
Moreover, I self-studied American Securities Law and Financial
Analysis, which exposed me to international trade and international
financial operations.
I have the habit to reflect on and study the issues in the real world,
a penchant that has led me to undertake research-oriented projects on
a number of topics. My social investigation report last summer,
entitled A Corner Neglected by the Reform of State-Owned Enterprise,
won the third prize at the treatise-writing contest in our university
for the summer social practice. My paper, The Protection of the Rights
of the Employees in State-owned Enterprises, was awarded Excellence
Prize at the Mingtai-Cup national treatise-writing contest, under the
subject of “Rule of Law, Human Rights, and the Duty of the Lawyer”,
jointly sponsored and launched by Mingtai Law Firm and Legal System
Daily Newspaper Office. Only three undergraduates won this honor
throughout China. In addition, I have tried to keep myself abreast
with recent academic developments in my interested fields through
various means. I attended China’s First Financial, Economic and Legal
Forum and participated in the discussions concerning banking industry
and trust industry at the sub-forum on the financial law. I also
attended a special training program on Case Study of Contract Law ,
and completed my training with a score of “A”.
Based on my study and research so far, I am now engaged in writing my
graduation thesis—The Impact of E-commerce on China’s Financial Law
and its Countermeasures. E-commerce and digitalized finance will be
the inevitable trends of Chinese economic development and those
brand-new means of transaction are bound to pose many challenges to
China’s conventional systems of trade, finance, financial monitoring
and regulation, taxation and law. Starting from the premises of law, I
will offer in-depth analysis of those issues. My tentative conclusion
is that China’s present Internet legislations based only on the
registration of domain names and network security are far from being
the true legislation of E-commerce. The legislation regarding the
Internet financial industry should be the first priority.
As a student of law, I have done some important internship in my
specialized area to accumulate practice experiences. I acted as
assistant lawyer at the Law Firm of Changchun City of Jilin Province,
responsible for codifying legal documents. I also worked as a
part-time correspondent for the Economic Edition of the Legal System
Daily, specifically in charge of covering the trials of economic
cases. While serving as a volunteer at the Chinese Law Channel, I
exchanged and cooperated with Mr. John Black, an American financial
analyst, and with Mr. Justin, a legal specialist on Internet. Having
gained a comprehensive understanding of the effect of Internet on
international trade and finance, I developed an interest in studying
the application of law to the digitalized finance. Obviously, to study
this subject and other related subjects, an international academic
environment will be absolutely necessary.
My interest in law and in finance, combined with the practices and the
research I have done, makes it very natural for me to apply for an
advanced degree program from your esteemed university. Economic
globalization and financial integration have obviously facilitated
China’s economic development, but they have also exposed some of the
fundamental differences between China and the West in terms of social
systems and value concepts. Frictions have also been created. One
essential purpose of my pursuing an international education in the UK
is to study and to reduce those differences, at least those
culturally-defined differences, so as to discover institutional and
legal approaches whereby trade frictions can be decreased. In this
way, China’s legal system can be integrated with that of the West
without undermining our national interests. This constitutes a
historical subject for China.
As I am interested in studying the law related to international
finance and trade, I would like to focus on the following areas in my
proposed program: international banking and financial law, global
comparative financial law, international dispute settlement,
competition law, and European Community law. I am prepared to carry
out extensive coursework in those fields.
After gaining in-depth knowledge concerning the legal environment of
the international financial market, I would undertake major
comparative research between China’s financial laws and those of the
E.U. and other regions and countries. The impact of international
financial market on China’s financial laws and the countermeasures
that China should adopt will also come within my scope of interest.
Furthermore, I hope to extend the research on the legal challenges
posed by digitalized finance that I am doing for my thesis. By probing
into the legal measures taken by the UK and other E.U. countries in
handling their digitalized finance, I wish to explore the means of
legislation and the kind of legal environment appropriate for China’s
digitalized finance.
China is experiencing an on-going construction of its market economy
and legal system. The areas I choose to specialize in for my academic
program and for my future career represent the prospects of China’s
development for decades to come. My career objective is become a
well-trained international economic jurist. My past education has
given me a perfect foundation for pursuing this objective. I am very
much convinced that my continued efforts in this direction will lead
me to where I want to go.
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