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Mr Nick Foster

Lecturer in Commercial Law
Founder and Editor of the Journal of Comparative Law
Email: nf4@soas.ac.uk

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

  • Comparative commercial and company law with particular reference to Islamic commercial law
  • the commercial law of the Arab Middle East, and company law theory.

Selected Publications

Foster, Nicholas HD (2007) 'Comparative Commercial Law: Rules or Context?' In: Nelken, D. and Örücü, E., (eds.), Comparative Legal Studies: A Handbook, Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp. 263-285

Foster, Nicholas HD (2007) 'Islamic Commercial Law: An Overview (II).' InDret: revista per a analisi del dret 1. 405

Foster, Nicholas HD (2007) 'Islamic Finance Law as an Emergent Legal System.' Arab Law Quarterly 21 (2) pp. 170-188

Foster, Nicholas HD (2006) 'Islamic Commercial Law: An Overview (I).' InDret: revista per a analisi del dret 4. 384

Foster, Nicholas HD (2006) 'The Journal of Comparative Law: A New Scholarly Resource.' Journal of Comparative Law 1. pp. 1-12

Foster, Nicholas HD (2006) 'Encounters between Legal Systems: Recent Cases concerning Islamic Commercial Law in Secular Courts.' Amicus Curiae (November/December) pp. 2-9

Foster, Nicholas HD (2006) 'Perception, Language and “Reality” in Corporate Law Theory.' King’s College Law Journal, 17 (2). pp. 299-324

Foster, Nicholas HD (2006) 'A Fresh Start for Comparative Legal Studies? A Collective Review of Patrick Glenn's Legal Traditions of the World' 2006, 2nd edition: Introduction (1) Journal of Comparative Law 100-107

Foster, Nicholas HD (2006) 'Islamic Law as Tradition': Chapter 6 of Patrick Glenn's Legal Traditions of the World 2006 (1) Journal of Comparative Law 147-150

Foster, Nicholas HD (2006) 'Kindling the Debate on Diversity' Chapter 10 of Patrick Glenn's Legal Traditions of the World 2006 (1) Journal of Comparative Law 174-176

Foster, Nicholas HD and Jane Ball (2006) 'Imperialism and Accountability in Corporate Law: The Limitations of Incorporation Law as a Regulatory Mechanism', in Parkinson, J and Macleod, S, Global Governance and the Search for Justice: Corporations and Corporate Governance, Hart, 3-19 (in press).

Foster, Nicholas HD (2006) 'The Journal of Comparative Law: A New Scholarly Resource', Journal of Comparative Law 1 1-12.

Foster, Nicholas HD (2005) 'The Theoretical Background: The Nature of the Actors in Corporate Social Responsibility', in Tully, SR (ed) Research Handbook on Corporate Legal Responsibility, Edward Elgar, 3-19.

Foster, Nicholas HD (2005) 'An Unstoppable Force Meets a Movable Object? Assignment of Rights in the UAE', Arab Law Quarterly 165-186.

Foster, Nicholas HD (2003-2004) 'Owing and Owning in Islamic and Western Law', Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law 10 1-37.

Foster, Nicholas HD (2002) 'Transmigration and Transferability of Commercial Law in a Globalised World' in Örücü, Esin; Harding, Andrew (eds) Comparative Law in the 21st Century, Kluwer, 55-73

Teaching

  • Undergraduate Company Law
  • LLM Comparative Commercial Law
  • LLM International and Comparative Corporate Law
  • formulating new course in Islamic Finance and Insurance