C.L. Lim

C.L. Lim is a Governing Board member of the Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia, a co-founder of the Asian Society of International Law, and twice served as the Executive Director of the Society of International Law of Singapore. He founded the Singapore Year Book of International Law, currently serving as Joint Editor-in-Chief, and was recently elected by the Chinese Society of International Law to the Board of the Chinese Journal of International Law. He has served as an APEC expert, and was sometime advisor to the Timor-Lesté Prime Minister's Office.

Professor Lim taught law at the National University of Singapore from 2001-07, serving concurrently in the Attorney-General's Chambers of Singapore from 2002-03. From 1999-2000 he served with the Governing Council Secretariat of the United Nations Compensation Commission, a body established by the Security Council to handle reparations following the 1991 Gulf War. He taught in Britain from 1993-1999, first at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and subsequently at Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London.

He is co-author of The Paradox of Consensualism in International Law (Hague: Kluwer, 1998), and co-editor of Renegotiating Westphalia (Hague: Nijhoff, 1999). He has written for the Netherlands and Asian yearbooks of international law, the Nordic, Leiden, Chinese and Melbourne international law journals and the Austrian Review of International & European Law, and he has recently been translated into German and Mandarin Chinese. His latest writings include "The Great Power Balance, the United Nations and What the Framers Intended" in the Chinese Journal of International Law; "Inter Arma Silent Leges? Black Hole Theories in the Laws of War", in Terrorism and the Rule of Law (Cambridge: University Press, forthcoming, 2008); "Free Trade Agreements in Asia" in The WTO in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge: University Press, 2007); and "The Question of a Generic Definition of Terrorism under General International Law", in Global Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy (Cambridge: University Press, 2005).

He is Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong.