Ernest LIM
Ernest Lim is Professor and Vice Dean at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his DPhil (PhD) and BCL from the University of Oxford, LLM from Harvard Law School and LLB from NUS.
His research interests include comparative corporate law and governance as well as private law. He has published widely on the implications of these areas of law for sustainability, climate change, AI, shareholders’ and directors’ fiduciary duties, state-owned enterprises, social enterprises, and corporate attribution.
Education
DPhil, BCL (University of Oxford); LLM (Harvard University); LLB (NUS); Attorney (New York State); Solicitor (England & Wales); Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)
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Ernest Lim is Professor and Vice Dean at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his DPhil (PhD) and BCL from the University of Oxford, LLM from Harvard Law School and LLB from NUS.
His research interests include comparative corporate law and governance as well as private law. He has published widely on the implications of these areas of law for sustainability, climate change, AI, shareholders’ and directors’ fiduciary duties, state-owned enterprises, social enterprises, and corporate attribution.
He is the sole author of three books with Cambridge University Press: A Case for Shareholders’ Fiduciary Duties in Common Law Asia (2019), which won the Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Runner-Up Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship; Sustainability and Corporate Mechanisms in Asia (2020), and Social Enterprises in Asia: A New Legal Form (2023).
He is also co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
His full-length articles have been published in premier peer reviewed journals such as the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the Cambridge Law Journal, the American Journal of Comparative Law, and the Law Quarterly Review. His work on corporate attribution in the Modern Law Review has been cited by the Singapore Court of Appeal and before the UK Supreme Court.
He has delivered distinguished and keynote lectures at the University of Hong Kong and University College London. He has been elected to the Robert S Campbell Visiting Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford. He also held visiting appointments at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, King’s College London, Columbia Law School and Tel Aviv University.
Given his interests in governance and strategy, particularly in how law and technology can be used to promote environmental good, he serves as a non-executive director of an international non-profit organisation, Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative.
Prior to joining academia, he practised corporate and securities law in the New York and Hong Kong offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP where he represented startups, Fortune 500 companies and investment banks in global capital market transactions.
Books
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Book Chapters
Journal Articles
- Comparative Company Law
- Comparative Corporate Governance
- Artificial Intelligence
- Relationship Between Private Law and Public Law