Preston Jordan Lim

Research Project

Judging Bennett's New Deal: The New Deal References and the Reshaping of Canadian Federalism

Biography

Preston Lim is an SJD candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He holds an AB from Princeton University, a Master of Global Affairs from Tsinghua University, where he studied as a Schwarzman Scholar, and a JD from Yale Law School. Following his graduation from law school, he clerked for the Justices of the Court of Appeal for Ontario and then for Chief Justice Richard Wagner of the Supreme Court of Canada. He also served previously as Policy Advisor to Erin O’Toole, the then Foreign Affairs Critic in Parliament. Among other topics, he writes on China’s relationship with the international legal system, Canadian foreign relations law, and the history of Canadian federalism. Keen to merge theory with practice, he regularly engages in legal practice and has, among other briefs, represented a participant before the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions.