Foster, Nicholas H.D.

Lecturer, SOAS, University of London; London, United Kingdom Nicholas H.D. Foster is a Lecturer in Commercial Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Foster has taught comparative commercial and company law, international economic and financial law, law and development, the law of contract, and conflicts of laws and the English legal system. His regional interest is in the Middle East, particularly the United Arab Emirates. Having trained with Clifford Chance, he qualified as a solicitor in 1983 and then worked in the fields of commercial law and banking with Clifford Chance and Nabarro Nathanson. Foster was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he read Law and Arabic, and the Université de Droit, d’Economie et des Sciences d’Aix-Marseille, where he studied French law. His major research interests are in the fields of comparative commercial and company law with particular reference to Islamic commercial law, the commercial law of the Arab Middle East, and company law theory. He has published extensively.