Full CV

LL.M., University of Cambridge, 2002

LL.B., National University of Singapore (Second Upper Honours), 1998

Advocate and Solicitor (Singapore), 1999

Academic Position Held

Current Appointment:

Assistant Professor of Law, Singapore Management University, 2002-Present

Previous Appointments:

Lecturer-in-Law, Singapore Management University, 2000-2002

Other Positions

Fellow, Intellectual Property Academy of Singapore, 2003-Present

Legal Associate, Messrs Shook Lin & Bok, 1999-2000

Courses Taught in SMU

Business Law

Intellectual Property Rights

Research Area / Area of Specialisation

Law of Intellectual Property

Selected Book, Journal & Other Publications

Saw Cheng Lim (2009), “Goodwill Hunting in Passing Off: Time to Jettison the Strict ‘Hard Line’ Approach in England?”, Forthcoming in Journal of Business Law

Saw Cheng Lim (2008), “Law of Intellectual Property”, in Chapter 23 of Principles of Singapore Business Law (Cengage Learning, Singapore), 655-714

Saw Cheng Lim and Susanna Leong (2008), "Defining Criminal Liability for Primary Acts of Copyright Infringement - The Singapore Experience", Journal of Business Law, 304-315

Saw Cheng Lim (2008), "Is Anns Alive and Well in Singapore?", The Tort Law Review , 16, 5-7

Saw Cheng Lim (2007), "Copyright", in Halsbury's Laws of Singapore, Volume 13(3) - Intellectual Property (LexisNexis, Singapore), 9-97

Saw Cheng Lim and Susanna Leong (2007), "Criminalizing Primary Copyright Infringement in Singapore - Who are the Real Online Culprits?", European Intellectual Property Review, 108-114

Susanna Leong and Saw Cheng Lim (2007), "Copyright Infringement in a Borderless World - Does Territoriality Matter?", International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 15, 38-53

Andrew Phang, Saw Cheng Lim and Gary Chan (2006), "Of Precedent, Theory and Practice - The Case for a Return to Anns", Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 1-59

Saw Cheng Lim (2005), "Protecting the Sound of Silence in 4'33"" - a Timely Revisit of Basic Principles in Copyright Law", European Intellectual Property Review, 467-476

Saw Cheng Lim and Winston Koh (2005), "Does P2P have a Future? Perspectives from Singapore", International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 13, 413-436

Saw Cheng Lim and Gary Chan (2005), "The House of Lords at the Crossroads of Privacy and Confidence", Hong Kong Law Journal, 35 (1), 91-101

Andrew Phang, Gary Chan and Saw Cheng Lim (2005), "Anns and Junior Books Again? A View from Singapore", J. of Business Law, July, 522-538

Saw Cheng Lim, Gary Chan and Andrew Phang (2004), "A Retreat from Bryan v Maloney in Australia?", Cambridge Law Journal, November, 549-551

Saw Cheng Lim (2004), "The Originality Debate in Copyright Law - The Canadian Perspective", Cambridge Law Journal, July, 294-297

Saw Cheng Lim (2004), "Law of Intellectual Property" in Chapter 21 of Basic Principles of Singapore Business Law (Thomson Learning, Singapore), 595-645

Saw Cheng Lim (2003), "Is There a Defence of Public Interest in the Law of Copyright in Singapore?", Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 2, 519-556

Saw Cheng Lim (2001), "Singapore's Accession to the Madrid Protocol: The Dawn of a New Era for the International Registration of Marks", Asia Business Law Review, 31, 61-66