C. L. Lim is the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a visiting professor at King's College London and Honorary Senior Fellow of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He practises as a barrister with Keating Chambers, London. Lim worked previously as international law counsel for a government as well as at the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva, and he served three terms on a committee advising Hong Kong's Commerce Secretary. He is currently participating in the UNCITRAL WGIII deliberations in which he represents an observer entity.