Arkansas Bar Foundation Professor of Law
A.B., 1973,
M.S., 1975, University of Illinois,
J.D., 1982, Southern Illinois University
Professor Foster currently teaches Property, Decedents’ Estates and Trusts, Secured Transactions and Legal History. She joined the faculty in 1986 as the director of the law library, and was appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in 1997 and Associate Dean for External Relations in 2000. Since 2002, she has been a full-time teacher.
She has published extensively, including co-authoring the award-winning first edition of Subject Compilations of State Laws, four editions of Legal Research Exercises and, most recently, the Revocable Trust Handbook for Arkansas Practitioners. Recent articles have covered Arkansas’s adoption of the Uniform Trust Code and the Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities. Currently she is writing a book on Arkansas probate law, and also serving as editor-in-chief of the Arkansas Bar Association Real Estate Law Section’s online publication, the Arkansas Real Estate Review, and the Probate and Trust Law Section’s version, the Arkansas Probate and Trust Law Review, two projects that involve collaboration among practitioners, faculty members and law students. She also is participating in the updating of Arkansas Real Estate Title Standards.
Professor Foster is active in service, having chaired the Information Network of Arkansas Commission, and also a national task force on citation reform composed of law librarians and legal publishers. In conjunction with one of her research areas, legal history, she maintains a website containing territorial Arkansas court records that is viewed annually by more than 13,000 visitors. She is a frequent CLE speaker. In 2009 she received the law school Faculty Excellence in Service award and was the first faculty recipient of the newly established Law School Award for Outstanding Public Service. She serves on the Arkansas Commission on Uniform State Laws and is an Arkansas representative at the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. Currently she also serves on the Continuing Legal Education and Uniform Laws Committees and the Handbooks Editorial Board of the Arkansas Bar Association.
E-mail: lcfoster@ualr.edu
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Phone: 501.324.9945
Revised: 7/2/2009