Ernest Lim is Professor and Vice Dean at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS). He obtained his DPhil 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 advised companies, financial institutions and NGOs in those areas. He has published widely on sustainability, AI, fiduciary duties, social enterprises, state-owned enterprises, and corporate attribution.
He is the sole-author of three monographs 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).
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.
Ernest is co-leading an interdisciplinary project on the legal implications of AI; a key forthcoming output is The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence of which he is the co-editor.
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, King’s College London, Columbia Law School and Tel Aviv University.
Prior to joining academia, he was a capital markets attorney in the New York and Hong Kong offices of Davis Polk where he represented startups, Fortune 500 companies and investment banks.
