Professor Lin Lin

Lin Lin is an Associate Professor at NUS Law, where she has been a faculty member since 2014. She specializes in corporate and finance law, and her comparative research focuses particularly on China and Singapore. Her research offers critical insights into how law shapes corporate governance and alternative investments, while engaging with global challenges such as sustainability and artificial intelligence. At its core, her work examines how legal institutions can foster technological innovation and sustainable investment.

Her scholarship has been published in leading academic journals and includes some of the most frequently cited articles in her field. Her sole-authored monograph, Venture Capital Law in China (Cambridge University Press, 2021), was selected for the prestigious International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation series. Her work has been cited by judges of the Supreme Court of China and OECD, underscoring its influence on legal reform and policy development.

Professor Lin serves as Subject Editor of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law and has guest-edited two special issues of the European Business Organization Law Review. She is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and a Council Member of the China Banking Law Society. Her academic contributions have led to visiting appointments at Stanford and Oxford. She has also taught intensive courses at leading law schools in China, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as executive MBA courses at NUS Business School. She is also an arbitrator with a number of arbitration institutions in China.

Before entering academia, Dr. Lin worked as a Legal Policy Officer at the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singapore (ACRA) and practised corporate finance at a leading Singapore law firm.