Arkansas Bar Foundation Professor of Law
A.B., 1973,
M.S., 1975, University of Illinois,
J.D., 1982, Southern Illinois University
Professor Foster joined the faculty in 1986 as the Law Library Director. She directed the Law Library until 1997, when she was appointed an associate dean. Since 2002, she has been a full-time teacher. Her current courses include Property, Decedents’ Estates and Trusts, and Secured Transactions. In conjunction with one of her research areas, legal history, she maintains a website of territorial Arkansas court documents at http://arcourts.ualr.edu/index.htm. Professor Foster is active in service areas, having chaired the Information Network of Arkansas Commission, and also a national task force of law librarians and legal publishers on citation reform. She has published extensively, including co-authoring the award-winning first edition of Subject Compilations of State Laws and four editions of Legal Research Exercises. Recent articles have covered Arkansas’s adoption of the Uniform Trust Code and the Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities. Currently, she is serving on an Arkansas Bar Association subcommittee that is producing The Revocable Trust Handbook for Arkansas Practitioners.
E-mail: lcfoster@ualr.edu
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Phone: 501.324.9945
Revised: 9/4/2007