Ernest LIM
Ernest Lim is Professor and Vice Dean for Faculty Development at NUS Law, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Centre for Technology, Robotics, AI & the Law (TRAIL).
He received his DPhil (PhD) and BCL from the University of Oxford, LLM from Harvard Law School and LLB from NUS.
His research expertise in comparative corporate law and governance, as well as other areas of private law, focuses on global challenges such as sustainability and artificial intelligence.
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
Company Law
Ernest Lim is Professor and Vice Dean for Faculty Development at NUS Law, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Centre for Technology, Robotics, AI & the Law (TRAIL).
He received his DPhil (PhD) and BCL from the University of Oxford, LLM from Harvard Law School and LLB from NUS.
His research expertise in comparative corporate law and governance, as well as other areas of private law, focuses on global challenges such as sustainability and artificial intelligence.
He is the sole author of three monographs with Cambridge University Press: A Case for Shareholders’ Fiduciary Duties in Common Law Asia (2019), awarded 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).
He is co-editor (with Phillip Morgan) of The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge University Press, 2024), and co-editor (with Douglas Kysar) of The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Private Law (Oxford University Press, 2026, forthcoming).
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 United Kingdom 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 invited to deliver keynotes at leading universities across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
He has also acted as an expert witness on corporate law in the Technology and Construction Court of the High Court of Justice in London.
Before joining academia, he practised corporate and securities law at a leading international firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York and Hong Kong, 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