DUKE LAW NEWS — When Mengyu Lu LLM ’08 was considering coming to the United States to pursue graduate studies after earning her undergraduate degree at China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, she wasn’t sure her parents would support her financially. “They wanted me to stay in China,” she says. “They were afraid that if I went to the U.S., I wouldn’t come back.” Lu applied anyway and was admitted to Duke Law on the Anna Ho Scholarship. Now a successful and well-respected partner at Kirkland & Ellis in Hong Kong, Lu has made a pledge to endow a scholarship herself, one that she hopes will make it possible for more international students to come to Duke for their LLM degree no matter their ability to pay. “Over the past 10 years, I worked very hard as a lawyer, and now, I’m running my own practice, so I think it’s time to give back,” she says. “I want to help students, because I think there are many students who really need financial support or who are just like me, who want some independence.” The LLM program at Duke is designed to introduce graduates of foreign law schools to the legal system of the United States and to provide the opportunity to take advanced courses in specialized areas of the law. Typically 90 to 95 students from 35 to 40 different countries enroll each fall.