LIN Lin
Lin Lin is an Associate Professor at NUS Law, where she has been a faculty member since 2014. She specializes in corporate and finance law, and her comparative research focuses particularly on China and Singapore. Her research offers critical insights into how law shapes corporate governance and alternative investments, while engaging with global challenges such as sustainability and artificial intelligence. At its core, her work examines how legal institutions can foster technological innovation and sustainable investment.
Current Courses
Alternative Investments
Lin Lin is an Associate Professor at NUS Law, where she has been a faculty member since 2014. She specializes in corporate and finance law, and her comparative research focuses particularly on China and Singapore. Her research offers critical insights into how law shapes corporate governance and alternative investments, while engaging with global challenges such as sustainability and artificial intelligence. At its core, her work examines how legal institutions can foster technological innovation and sustainable investment.
Her scholarship has been published in leading academic journals and includes some of the most frequently cited articles in her field. Her sole-authored monograph, Venture Capital Law in China (Cambridge University Press, 2021), was selected for the prestigious International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation series. Her work has been cited by judges of the Supreme Court of China and by policymakers, underscoring its influence on legal reform and policy development.
Professor Lin serves as Subject Editor of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law and has guest-edited two special issues of the European Business Organization Law Review. She is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and a Council Member of the China Banking Law Society. Her academic contributions have led to visiting appointments at Stanford and Oxford. She has also taught intensive courses at leading law schools in China, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as executive MBA courses at NUS Business School. She is also an arbitrator with a number of arbitration institutions in China.
Before entering academia, Dr. Lin worked as a Legal Policy Officer at the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singapore (ACRA) and practised corporate finance at a leading Singapore law firm.
Book Chapters
Journal Articles
Lin Lin and Umakanth Varottil, “Venture Capital in China and India: Does Business Form Matter?” (2020) 53(3) Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 949-987
Lin Lin and Christopher Chen, “The Promise and Perils of InsurTech” (2020) 1 Singapore Journal Legal Studies 115-142
Lin Lin, “Regulating FinTech: The Case of Singapore” (2019) 35 Banking and Finance Law Review 94-119
Lin Lin and Dominika Nestarcova, “Venture Capital in the Rise of Crypto Economy” (2019) 16(2) Berkeley Business Law Journal 533-571
Lin Lin, “Venture Capital in Singapore: The Way Forward” (2019) 5 Journal of Business Law 363-387
Lin Lin, “Private Equity Investor Protection: Conceptualizing Duties of Partners in China” (2018) 15 (1) Berkeley Business Law Journal 43-91
Lin Lin, “Engineering a Venture Capital Market: Lessons from China” (2017) 30(1) Columbia Journal of Asian Law 160-220
Lin Lin, “Managing the Risks of Equity Crowdfunding: Lessons from China” (2017) 17(2) Journal of Corporate Law Studies 327-366 15.
Lin Lin, “Venture Capital Exits and the Structure of Stock Market: Lessons from China” (2017) 12(1) Asian Journal of Comparative Law 1-40
Edited Volumes
Iris Chiu and Lin Lin (eds), Law and Regulation for Sustainable Finance, European Business Organization Law Review Vol. 23 (1)(Springer 2022)
Lin Lin and Hans Tjio (eds), Alternative Investments, Sustainability in the Digital Age, European Business Organization Law Review Vol. 21 (Springer 2020)
Lin Lin and Dora Neo (eds), Alternative Investments in the Tech Era, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, March 2020
Book
Lin Lin, Venture Capital Law in China (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Law
- Climate Finance
- FinTech
- Chinese Corporate and Securities Law