Hilary Lim has taught at UEL for over twenty years. She was awarded an ESRC scholarship for her studies leading to an MA in Law and Sociology. Hilary's PhD was entitled 'Mapping Welfare Rights'. Hilary has supervised several PhD students through to completion, most notably students studying as part of a Dfid funded Project to enhance women's rights in Bangladesh. She is currently supervising doctoral students working in the areas of Islamic inheritance law, domestic violence, and children's rights. She has examined a number of PhD theses, both internally and externally. Hilary has been an external examiner for the LLB Programmes at the University of Bournemouth and Southampton Institute, and most recently at the University of Kent.

• Chair of the Law, Criminology and Criminal Justice* Assessment Board
• Member of the Law School 's Management Team

• Equity and Trusts

• Land Law, Children's Rights

• Islamic law and land rights

• LLB

• Equity and Trusts
• Land Law
• Project Option
• Law and Society

• Recently, she completed the second phase of a consultancy for UN HABITAT on Islamic Land Law, with her colleague Siraj Sait, at the end of June 2008.  The first phase of this research was published during 2005 as eight papers in the Islamic Land and Property Research Series (see http://www.GLTN.net), and as:
  
  Land, Law and Islam: Property & Human Rights in the Muslim World (London, Zed Press: 2006)
• With Siraj Sait, she co-organised an Expert Group Meeting, funded by UN-HABITAT/GLTN at the University of East London in May 2007, on the Cross-Fertilisation of Universal and Islamic Land Approaches (http://www.uel.ac.uk/egm). 

Recent publications include:

• H. Lim and A. Bottomley (eds) 'Feminist Perspectives on Land Law' ( London , Routledge Cavendish: 2007) isbn: 1 85941 806 6

• 'Pensions Odyssey 1992'(1992) Trust Law International, 44 (with Jon Hayes)

• Materials and Cases on Land Law, (1992) Pitmans (2nd Edition, March 1995) (with Kate Green)

• 'A Lib-Lib Pact: silences in legal education' (1993) in L Levine (ed) The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory (Dartmouth) pp.535-541 (with K Green) (reprinted from the Law Teacher)

• 'The Indeterminate Province: Storytelling in Legal Theory and Legal Education', (1994) The International Journal of Legal Education, 128-137 (with K Green and J Roche)

• 'Messages from a rarely visited island: duress and lack of consent in marriage' (1996) 4 Feminist Legal Studies 195-220

• 'Mapping Equity's Place: Here be Dragons' in Bottomley, A (ed), Feminist Perspectives on the Foundational Subjects of Law, (1996) Cavendish Press 125-148

• 'What is this thing about female circumcision?' (1998) 2(3) Social and Legal Studies 365-387 (with K. Green)

• 'Caesareans and Cyborgs' (1999) 7(2) Feminist Legal Studies 135-173

• 'Feminism, children's rights and the politics of voice' in D. Fottrell (ed) Revisiting Children's Rights a Decade on from the Children's Convention ( London , Kluwer Law International:2000) (with J. Roche) 51-72

• 'Feminism and Children's Rights' in J. Bridgeman and D. Monks (eds) Feminist Perspectives on Child Law ( London, Cavendish Press: 2000) (with J Roche) 227-249

• 'Justice and Rights' in Routledge Encylopaedia of Women's Studies (2001 Routledge) 1175-1177

• 'Waqf in Trust' in H. Lim and S. Scott-Hunt (eds) Feminist Perspectives on Equity and Trusts (London , Cavendish Press: 2000) 47-64

• 'The Family Home as an Investment: Misrepresentation and the Lady of Shalott' in H. Lim and S. Scott-Hunt (eds) Feminist Perspectives on Equity and Trusts ( London , Cavendish Press:2001) (with K. Green) 85-110

• 'Inheritance, HIV/AIDS and Children's Rights to Land' in R. Home and H. Lim (eds) 'Demystifying the Mystery of Capital: Land Tenure and Poverty in Africa and the Caribbean ( London, Glasshouse Press:2004) 51-72 isbn 1 90438 513 3.

• 'Introduction: Demystifying 'The Mystery of Capital' in R. Home and H. Lim (eds) 'Demystifying the Mystery of Capital: Land Tenure and Poverty in Africa and the Caribbean ( London, Glasshouse Press:2004) (with R Home) 1-10 isbn 1 90438 513 3

• 'To Pay Suspicious Attention: Following the Weave of ‘Mixed Logics’ in Women’s Ethical Decision-making' (2005) 13(2) Feminist Legal Studies (with S. Scott-Hunt) 205-237

• Hilary has published book reviews in Social and Legal Studies and Feminist Legal Studies.
• She has acted as an external reviewer for both Feminist Legal Studies, Law and Policy and the Journal of Law & Society.
• Hilary has also acted as a reviewer for a number of publishers.