Michelle Lim is the UNESCO Chair of Sustainability Law Futures. She is an Associate Professor in Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University. Her interdisciplinary scholarship focuses on futures-oriented biodiversity law research aimed at advancing equity and sustainability under conditions of unprecedented environmental change. Michelle’s scholarship includes exploration of affect and methods which challenge the form of scholarship including creative and imaginative means of expression (e.g. speculative fiction, poetry, dramatic and visual arts).
Lim is Co-Editor in Chief of the Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law. She was a fellow on the Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and an author of the IPBES/IPCC joint workshop report. She sits on the Advisory Board of Ambio. Lim was awarded the 2016/2017 Law Council of Australia Mahla Pearlman Australian Young Environmental Lawyer of the Year Award and the 2021 Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand publication prize for a published scholarly article or book chapter.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of New England, Armidale, Australia
- Bachelor of Science (Ecosystem Management) / Bachelor of Laws (Hons I), University of New England, Armidale, Australia
Courses Taught
- Governing for Sustainable Futures (COR-LAW2225)
- Ethics and Social Responsibility (COR3301)
- Introduction to Sustainability Law (COR-LAW2237)
Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation
- Biodiversity Law
- Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
- Futures studies and the law
- Fiction as legal method
- Transdisciplinary methodology