Ernest Lim is the Chan Sek Keong Professor of Private Law and a Vice Dean at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS), where he also serves as Co-Director of the Centre for Technology, Robotics, AI & the Law (TRAIL).
He holds a DPhil (PhD) and BCL from the University of Oxford, an LLM from Harvard Law School, and an LLB from NUS. His work sits at the intersection of private law, artificial intelligence, and sustainability—areas he brings together to ask how the law should be reconceived to advance social and ecological justice, with particular attention to Asia and its place in global governance. His scholarship spans comparative corporate law and governance, AI regulation, and the dynamic relationship between technology and private law. As co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge University Press, 2024), he brought together leading voices to shape the international conversation on how private law (broadly conceived) should respond to AI.
His articles address legal frameworks for AI fairness reporting, the relationship between the Chinese government and private AI companies, commercial liability for AI developers, procurers and users, and the impact of technology on corporate governance and businesses. He is pursuing two projects: a comparative study of judicial deployment of AI across different legal systems, and a theoretical account of AI diminishment harm.