Ernest LIM
Ernest Lim is a Professor of Law 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 other aspects of private law. He has published widely on the implications of these areas of law for sustainability, AI, investors’ 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)
Curriculum Vitae
Current Courses
Ernest Lim is a Professor of Law 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 other aspects of private law. He has published widely on the implications of these areas of law for sustainability, AI, investors’ and directors’ fiduciary duties, state-owned enterprises, social enterprises, and corporate attribution.
He is the sole author of three monographs with Cambridge University Press (CUP): A Case for Shareholders’ Fiduciary Duties in Common Law Asia (2019), winner of the joint second Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship; Sustainability and Corporate Mechanisms in Asia (2020), and Social Enterprises in Asia: A New Legal Form (2023). All three monographs are published in CUP’s International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation series.
He is co-editor (with Phillip Morgan) of The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
He is also co-editor (with Douglas Kysar) of The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Private Law (under contract with Oxford University Press).
His full-length articles have been published in premier peer reviewed generalist journals such as the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the Cambridge Law Journal and the Law Quarterly Review, as well as in leading specialist refereed journals such as the American Journal of Comparative Law. His work has been cited by the Singapore Court of Appeal and before the UK Supreme Court.
In recognition of his research, he has been elected to the Robert S Campbell Visiting Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford, invited to deliver the 18th Asian Institute of International Financial Law Distinguished Public Lecture at the University of Hong Kong, and appointed a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).
He has also been engaged as an expert witness on Singapore corporate law in the Technology and Construction Court of the High Court of Justice in London.
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
Edited Books
Book Chapters
Journal Articles
Representative Publications
Books
Ernest Lim, Sustainability and Corporate Mechanisms in Asia (Cambridge University Press 2020)
Ernest Lim, A Case for Shareholders’ Fiduciary Duties in Common Law Asia (Cambridge University Press 2019)
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- Comparative Company Law
- Comparative Corporate Governance
- Private Law
- Artificial Intelligence
- Sustainability
- Climate Change