Charles Foster is a member of the Oxford Law Faculty (where he is a Visiting Professor), a Senior Research Associate at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics (part of the Faculty of Philosophy), a Research Associate at the Ethox Centre (a multidisciplinary bioethics research centre within the Nuffield Department of Public Health, University of Oxford), a Research Associate at the Health, Law and Emerging Technologies Centre, (part of the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), and an Associate at the Oxford Human Rights Hub.
He is also a barrister, practising at 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square (where he specialises in medical law) and a part time judge of the Crown Court (where he is authorized to try serious sexual offences) and the County Court. He joined Exeter College as a Supernumerary Fellow in 2022.
His PhD is from the University of Cambridge for work on the way that the law handles human autonomy and dignity in medical decision-making.