Before coming to Bend, he was Chair of the Department of Political Science
for twelve years (1990-2002) on the Corvallis campus.
He regularly teaches courses on constitutional law, administrative law,
gender and law, and American political thought.
He has published articles on legal education, book chapters on affirmative
action and equality debates, as well as on the Oregon Judicial Branch.
He is co-editor of the book Governing Through Courts and co-author of
the two-volume Constitutional Law: Cases in Context. Foster has taught
twice in London and in St. Petersburg, Russia.
He was Book Review Editor of Legal Studies Forum for ten years, and has served as
President of the Pacific Coast Association of Pre-law Studies
and the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association.