2013年

Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis said, "If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable." Tell us about an unjust law (written or unwritten) that you believe should be broken.
翻译：美国最高法院大法官路易斯·D·布兰迪斯说过：“如果我们希望人们尊敬法律，我们必须先让法律成为可尊敬的。”告诉我们一个你认为应该打破的不义法律（成文的或是不成文的）。
解析：AADPS分类I-a
字数限制：250词

Law is an indispensable instrument to ensure the normal operation of society. In the past, laws had a significant bias based on the preferences of the ruling class, exemplified by cases like the capital punishment waiver for lords in Ancient China and the deprivation of women’s suffrage since the dawn of democracy. Now, the situation has been much improved, and the justice of the law has been rectified due to the universal values of Freedom, Equality, and Fraternity. Yet we would still have a long way to go since the history residue is hard to remove and new types of conflicts are constantly emerging.

As the son of a lawyer, I have a keen interest in the issue. Once, I observed the proceedings of a court and was confounded by the fact that the plaintiff and the defendant were arguing about the registered permanent residence of the deceased over and over. Only after my father’s explanation did I know that in the current Tort Law of China, the compensation standard of a city-dweller is 1.5 times as much as that of a rural farmer. However, I believe all human lives are invaluable, and should be treated with equality. No one should have the right to decide that the life of someone is more expensive. It is totally artificial to divide people based on their color, profession, or residence location; let alone treat different social groups with distinct sets of criteria. The unjust, despicable law should be broken since it violates the core values of our world.

留学文书译文（机翻）：

法律是保障社会正常运转不可或缺的工具。在过去，基于统治阶级偏好的法律有很大的偏见，比如古代中国上议院免除死刑和民主诞生以来剥夺妇女选举权的案例。现在，由于自由、平等和博爱的普遍价值观，情况得到了很大改善，法律的正义得到了纠正。然而，我们还有很长的路要走，因为历史的残余难以消除，新类型的冲突不断出现。

作为律师之子，我对这个问题非常感兴趣。有一次，我观察了一家法院的诉讼程序，发现原告和被告一次又一次地就死者的户口问题争论不休，这让我感到困惑。在父亲解释之后，我才知道，在中国现行的侵权法中，城市居民的赔偿标准是农村农民的1.5倍。然而，我相信所有人的生命都是无价的，应该平等对待。任何人都不应该有权利决定某人的生活是否更昂贵。根据肤色、职业或居住地点来划分人完全是人为的；更不用说用不同的标准对待不同的社会群体了。不公正、卑劣的法律应该被打破，因为它违反了我们世界的核心价值观。

标化条件：GPA 3.5 TOEFL 95 SAT 1920

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