CUHK LAW is pleased to announce that Prof. Chin Leng LIM, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Law, has been elected as an Associate Member by the Institut de Droit International. The Institut comprises the world’s leading public international lawyers. 

Under the Institut’s Statutes, adopted in Ghent on 10 September 1873, Associates shall be selected from among those of various nations who have given service to international law either in the field of theory or in that of practice. The total number of Members and Associates under the age of 80 shall not exceed 132, but need not necessarily be equal to that number.  

The purpose of the Institut, which is an exclusively learned society and is without any official nature, is to promote the progress of international law:

• by striving to formulate the general principles of the subject, in such a way as to correspond to the legal conscience of the civilized world;
• by lending its co-operation in any serious endeavour for the gradual and progressive codification of international law;
• by seeking official endorsement of the principles recognized as in harmony with the needs of modern societies;
• by contributing, within the limits of its competence, either to the maintenance of peace, or to the observance of the laws of war;
• by studying the difficulties which may arise in the interpretation or application of the law, and where necessary issuing reasoned legal opinions in doubtful or controversial cases;
• by affording its co-operation, through publications, public teaching and all other means, in ensuring that those principles of justice and humanity which should govern the mutual relations of peoples shall prevail.

CUHK LAW extends its congratulations to Prof. Lim.

For further information about the Institut, please follow this link: https://www.idi-iil.org/en/