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Professor Chin Leng Lim
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Professor C.L. Lim, Barrister (Middle Temple) is Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong and Visiting Professor at the School of Law, King’s College London. Previously Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2008-2011, he now serves on Hong Kong University’s Advisory Group on Academic Reviews and as Chairman of the East Asian International Economic Law and Policy Program.
Before coming to Hong Kong in 2007, he taught at the National University of Singapore where he received the Teaching Excellence Award, and worked in the Attorney-General’s Chambers as an international law advisor. He served as Singapore's counsel in its trade negotiations, advising on trade and trade-related issues ranging from goods and services to procurement, investment, competition, intellectual property, other commercial and social regulatory issues, and the procedures for settling investor-state and inter-state disputes. He was formerly a United Nations lawyer in Geneva handling Gulf War reparations, following an academic career in Britain in the 1990s at Queen Mary & Westfield College and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. He provides regular external consulting and support to various bodies; more recently during stakeholder meetings of the Sixth Round of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, and at other times to the Hong Kong SAR's Central Policy Unit, APEC, the WTO and a range of other regional governmental and nongovernmental interests. He currently works with the WTO as a consultant and is an editor of the Chinese Journal of International Law. In 2007, he co-founded the Asian Society of International Law as a member of its Provisional Executive Council, and now sits on the Governing Board of the Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia.
He travels and speaks regularly, more recently at the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council-Asian Development Bank Institute Inaugural Conference, the Conference on European and Global Economic Governance in Brussels, Peking University’s School of International Studies, the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Harvard Law School, the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Melbourne University, Tillar House in Washington D.C. and the meetings of the New York State Bar Association, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the American Society of International Law.
Current courses: Global Business Law I; World Trade Law, Policy & Business; Global Business Law II; International Economic Law (with Douglas Arner); Human Rights in Hong Kong (with Johannes Chan).
Previous courses: Constitutional Law (with Richard Cullen)
Specialized Areas: International Economic Law; World Trade Law, Policy and Business.
International media mentions: Forbes, CNN, Chicago Tribune, Guardian, Reuters
