Faculty Profile

• PhD, University of New England, Armidale, Australia, 2012
• Bachelor of Science (Ecosystem Management) / Bachelor of Laws (Hons I), University of New England, Armidale, Australia, 2008

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

• Associate Professor of Law, Singapore Management University, Jul 2022-Present

Other Positions

• Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University, July 2020-June 2022
• Lecturer, University of Adelaide, January 2017-Jun 2020
• Lecturer, Griffith University, July 2015-Dec 2016
• Research Associate, UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy & Science, University of Dundee September 2014- May 2015 
• Post-doctoral Researcher, UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy & Science, University of Dundee September 2012- August 2014 

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

Selected Publications

• Google Scholar author page: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=PmyMY80AAAAJ&hl=en
• Lim, Michelle (ed.) (2019) Charting Environmental Law Futures in the Anthropocene, Springer, 245pp
• Lim, Michelle (2021) “Fiction as Legal Method – Imagining with the more-than-human to awaken our plural selves”
• Lim, Michelle (2021) "Extinction: hidden in plain sight–Can stories of 'the last' unearth environmental law's unspeakable truth?." Griffith Law Review. 1-32. (Awarded the 2021 Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand publication prize for a published scholarly article or book chapter)
• Lim, Michelle (2021). "Biodiversity 2050: Can the Convention on Biological Diversity Deliver a World Living in Harmony with Nature?." Yearbook of International Environmental Law : 1-23.
• Author, IPBES-IPCC Co-Sponsored Workshop Report on Biodiversity and Climate Change (2021). One of 50 global experts (and only legal scholar) selected to contribute to this report. https://ipbes.net/events/ipbes-ipcc-co-sponsored-workshop-report-biodiversity-and-climate-change
• Author (Fellow), Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) (2019) ‘Global Assessment’. https://ipbes.net/global-assessment
• Lim, Michelle, Peter Søgaard Jørgensen, Carina Wyborn (2018) ‘Reframing the Sustainable Development Goals to achieve sustainability in the Anthropocene’ 23(3): 22 Ecology and Society 1-19. Available at: https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol23/iss3/art22/
• Lim, Michelle (2016) ‘Governance criteria for effective transboundary biodiversity conservation’, 16 International Environmental Agreements 797-813.
• Lim, Michelle (2014) ‘Is water different from biodiversity- governance criteria for the effective management of transboundary resources’, 23 Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law 96-110
• Lim, Michelle (2014) ‘Strengthening the legal and institutional effectiveness for transboundary biodiversity conservation in the ‘Heart of Borneo’, 17 Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law 65-90.