Hi everyone,

What is your Harvard personal statement topic? We have to wait a whole month, so let's find some ways to kill time :)

Best of luck !

haha .. ok ... Madrid Protocol and its impact on Latin America(International trademark issue)

.... the state of emergency in Argentina and its effect on public utilities contracts (specially those regarding telecommunications)

The challenge of financing great infrastructures in Spain with no recourse to public funds, which are being drastically decreased due to the EU enlargement towards the East European Countries and to the public debt contention target...

cross-border tax issues in international private equity financing in east Asia and financial regulations impeding growth of capital market......

The NIOC v. Israel case (dispute over a pipeline built by Iran and Israel in Israel), or the influence of geopolitics in the emergence and resolution of inter-state disputes. (Now that I am write the topic, I am getting scared about my chances to get admitted...)

Increasing the tobacco tax....... I mentioned that i didn't agree with it.

the transfer pricing regime in India (International taxation issue).

How about you Michaeeeel?

My personal statement was on child sexual abuse (focussing on the laws of India) and the need to use child friendly laws and procedures. (I am a Human rights lawyer BTW).

Michaeeeel, we are all keen to know your topic as well.

yes, what's urs Michaeel?

My essay was about methodogical issues in legal history, namely, what are the benefits of comparative legal history, and how sociology of knowledge could help us in understanding legal realist revolution. I contrasted my own approach with that of two Harvard legal historians: Morton J. Horwitz and Duncan Kennedy. It may sound impressive, but the truth is, the essay itself is not that impressive. I wrote it very quickly, and it did not turn out that well. If I make it to HLS, it won't be because of that essay.

limitations that can be inferred from the greek constitution conserning the ability of the legislature to enact retrospective laws

potential impact of Grokster case on Taiwan's p2p disputes and copyright regime

Mine concerned the difficult introduction of the concept of plea bargaining under the French legal regime (contradictions, paradoxes, etc.).

I believe that the words limitation was a "handicap" for writing a deep essay...

i agree with you acm 123...

Defficiencies in justice administration in Argentina

Mine focused on the related problem of recidivism and discrimination among ex-convicts in my country and the need for anti-discrimination legislation to address this

I wrote about IDPs, the flaws in international law mechanisms and potential solutions....