Public speaking is a privilege.
I hope I will not abuse this privilege and indeed the table is already turned and it is my time to face the music.
Each year at the concluding ceremony I used to speak in Chinese, one routine message I would deliver is to ask you to practice English. This year I decide to put myself to this test, and speak in English.
Each year might become my last year with space law moot court, therefore although I hate those dark, long nights of scoring your memo, sitting through whole day bombarding you with rounds of questions and torturing my fellow judges and myself, I do cherish the time I spend with you. As I look back on my years at space law moot, many good things come to me. These experiences are events of the mind, and treasures of the heart.
As my time with moot court approaches ending, I will not throw out any questions about the case, we have sent Accadia and Inkaton off for a city tour to Xiangtan, instead I will speak about something behind the case and the moot court competition, that is the law.
One eminent scholar once said the law is what we say it is, many of you would disagree with him, and think how wrongful, how arrogant and audacity that can be. You would like to say the law is what Bing Cheng said it is. But under certain circumstances, such as the moot court, the law is what we say it is.
The law is not on the journals, in the commentries, the law is not even black and white, the law is in its application that each and every one of you do have a say and it lives by its application.
Many of you would not appear before a space law moot court again, I hope this experience not fail you, I am eager to hear your stories about being a mooter, and I am sure you will recall this experience when you start your own legal career.
Education is to kindle a flame not to fill a vessel.
With this quotation, I turn in my privilege of speaking and thank you all for giving me another wonderful year of moot court competition.
