Caroline E. Foster is a New Zealand law professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in international law and the law of the sea, compliance and dispute settlement.

Foster completed a BA and LLB (Hons) at the University of Canterbury, and an LLM and PhD at the University of Cambridge.^[1] Foster then joined the faculty of the University of Auckland, rising to full professor in 2022.^[2] She is the Director of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law.^[3]

Foster researches the functioning of international tribunals and courts, and their roles.^[4] She is also interested in compliance with international law, and dispute settlement.^[2] Foster has written two monographs. The first, published by Cambridge University Press in 2011, Science and the Precautionary Principle in International Courts and Tribunals: Expert Evidence, Burden of Proof and Finality, was cited in the International Court of Justice by Judges Bruno Simma and Awn Al-Khasawneh on a case concerning pulp mills, and a dispute regarding international whaling.^[2][3] Global Regulatory Standards in Environmental and Health Disputes: Regulatory Coherence, Due Regard, and Due Diligence, published by Oxford University Press in 2021, was nominated for the European Society of International Law monograph prize in 2022.^[5][3]

In collaboration with Professor Andrew Lang, chair of international law and global governance at the London School of Economics, Foster was awarded a Marsden grant in 2013, On the forge: the role of the international judge and arbitrator in the 21st century, which funded the research for her 2021 monograph.^[3][6]

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• Caroline E. Foster (19 April 2022). "Due Diligence and Compliance with the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty". The Yearbook of Polar Law Online. 13 (1): 154–174. doi:10.1163/22116427_013010008. ISSN 1876-8814. Wikidata Q124459479.
• Caroline E. Foster (8 November 2019). "The Problem with Public Morals" (PDF). Journal of International Dispute Settlement. 10 (4): 622–655. doi:10.1093/JNLIDS/IDZ020. ISSN 2040-3585. Wikidata Q124459480.
• Caroline E. Foster (1 January 2016), Methodologies and Motivations: Was Japan’s Whaling Programme for Purposes of Scientific Research?, pp. 9–37, doi:10.1163/9789004313828_003, Wikidata Q124459481
• Caroline E. Foster (29 January 2008). "Public Opinion and the Interpretation of the World Trade Organisation's Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures". Journal of International Economic Law. 11 (2): 427–458. doi:10.1093/JIEL/JGN011. ISSN 1369-3034. Wikidata Q124464929.
• Caroline E. Foster (24 March 2011). Science and the Precautionary Principle in International Courts and Tribunals: Expert Evidence, Burden of Proof and Finality. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511973680. ISBN 978-1-107-66903-1. Wikidata Q124464920.
• Caroline E. Foster (31 March 2022). The Development of Global Regulatory Standards by International Courts and Tribunals: Whaling, Tobacco and Renewable Energy. pp. 169–200. doi:10.1017/9781839702709.010. ISBN 978-1-83970-270-9. Wikidata Q124464955.