Academic Staff

Ernest Lim

Assistant Professor
LL.B., National University of Singapore
LL.M., Harvard Law School
B.C.L., University of Oxford
Attorney, New York State
Solicitor, England and Wales

Ernest’s research interests include company law, corporate finance law and legal theory. He deploys doctrinal, theoretical and interdisciplinary methodologies to his research. He has written on directors’ duties, corporate attribution, corporate veil, shareholders’ remedies, liability in securities’ offerings, law and religion and contractual interpretation.

Prior to entering academia in August 2011, Ernest practised corporate and securities law in the New York and Hong Kong offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell where he represented bulge bracket investment banks and issuers ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies in capital markets transactions including IPOs, high yield and convertible notes.

A graduate of the University of Oxford, Harvard Law School and the National University of Singapore, he is admitted to the New York State bar and is an English solicitor.

Ernest lectures the Law of Business Associations and teaches Contract Law. He will be a Visiting Professor at the Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, in the academic year 2013-2014.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Articles

  1. “Religious Exemptions in England: Some Key Conceptual Issues” [2014] Public Law (forthcoming)
  1. “Formalism and Companies” (2013) 13(2) Journal of Corporate Law Studies (forthcoming)
  1. “Directors’ Fiduciary Duties: A New Analytical Framework” (2013) 129 Law Quarterly Review 242
  1. “A Critique of Corporate Attribution: "Directing Mind and Will" and Corporate Objectives” [2013] Journal of Business Law 333
  1. “The Illegality Defence and Company Law” (2013) 13(1) Journal of Corporate Law Studies 49
  1. “Sponsors’ Prospectus Liability in Initial Public Offerings in Hong Kong” (2013) 8 Capital Markets Law Journal 177

 

Case Comments

  1. “Salomon Reigns” (2013) 129 Law Quarterly Review (forthcoming)
  1. “Commercial Purpose and Business Common Sense in Contractual Interpretation” (2012) 23 King's Law Journal 94
  1. “Personal Tortious Cause of Action: Assignment and Champerty” (2011) 19 Tort Law Review 119

 

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