Brief Bio

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 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). He is co-editor (with Phillip Morgan) of The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence (CUP, 2024). He is also co-editor (with Douglas Kysar) of The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Private Law (Oxford University Press, 2026, forthcoming).

Courses taught at CTLS

• Comparative Corporate Law (Fall 2025, Spring 2019)
• Core Course (Spring 2019)