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Professor Craig Forrest

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School of Law
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
c.forrest@law.uq.edu.au
+61 7 334 69027

Overview

Craig Forrest is a Professor of Law and Director of the Marine and Shipping Law Unit, Professor Forrest teaches and undertakes research in maritime law, private international law and cultural heritage law. He has published widely in these areas and contributed directly to national and international public policy developments and directly to the drafting of national legislation and international law. Most recently, Professor Forrest has completed a World Bank financed project on the future of the Marshall Islands Ship Registry with a research team drawn from Columbia University, University College London and the University of the South Pacific.

Professor Forrest has a long association with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). Between 1998 and 2000, he was a member of the South African delegation to UNESCO and has undertaken a number of activities and consultancies for UNESCO, including: acting as an independent advisor to UNESCO regional cultural meetings in Solomon Islands, Cambodia, St.Kitts and Nevis and Indonesia; together with the UNESCO secretariate, drafting a Model Law for the implementation of the UNESCO UCH convention for the Caribbean States; completing a UNESCO consultancy with Dr Bill Jeffery (University of Guam) on the protection of underwater cultural heritage in the States of Micronesia and, together with Major Projects Foundation, undertaking a national Interest Analysis and Gap study on the protection of underwater cultural heritage in Solomon Islands (2012), Marshall Islands (2022) and Fiji (2023). Professor Forrest is an Australian representative on the International Law Association's Committee on Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in Armed Conflict and a member of the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) International Committee on Underwater Cultural Heritage. Professor Forrest is also a Federal Attorney-General appointed Australian correspondent to the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (Rome).

Professor Forrest is the general editor of the Australian and New Zealand Maritime Law Journal, and on the editorial boards of the World Maritime University Journal of Maritime Affairs, Journal of Ocean Law and Governance in Africa and the International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook.

Professor Forrest has held visiting research and teaching positions at Cambridge University, National University of South Korea, City University of Hong Kong, Dalhousie University and University of Nottingham (the latter as a Universitas 21 Fellow). Before turning to the law, Professor Forrest served as a naval officer in the South African Navy.

Research Interests

  • Cultural heritage law
  • Maritime law
  • Law of the sea
  • Conflict of laws

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Available Projects

  • Maritime Law

    The staff of the Marine and Shipping Law Unit (MASLU) are available to supervise research projects in the general area of national and international maritime law. These include private maritime law issues (e.g. carriage of goods, international trade, maritime casualties and environmental compensation); maritime law regulatory issues (e.g. safety and environmental protection); enforcement of maritime claims (e.g. arrest, jurisdiction, security, liens, compulsory insurance); international maritime law reform (e.g. the role of the IMO, UNCTAD, UNCITRAL and CMI) and issues arising in the Law of the Sea.

    Specific Projects include:

    • The Legal Regime of Ports in Australia: Law and Security
    • The Navigation Acts 1912-2012: Reform and Development
    • Pacific Island Maritime Law
    • Liability of Marine Pilots
    • Comparative Chinese maritime law
    • Deep Seabed mining regime

    For further information contact Professor Craig Forrest, e: c.forrest@law.uq.edu.au

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Publications

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Book Chapter

  • Article 10 of the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention: transitional clause

    Forrest, Craig (2024). Article 10 of the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention: transitional clause. The 1970 UNESCO and 1995 UNIDROIT conventions on stolen or illegally transferred cultural property. (pp. 660-671) edited by Ana Filipa Vrdoljak, Andrzej Jakubowski and Alessandro Chechi. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

  • Eastern seaboard

    Forrest, Craig (2023). Eastern seaboard. The law of the sea: contemporary norms and practice in Africa. (pp. II-35-1-II-35-61) Kenwyn, South Africa: Juta.

  • Oceania

    Forrest, Craig and Corrin, Jennifer (2020). Oceania. The Oxford handbook of international cultural heritage law. (pp. 860-877) edited by Francesco Francioni and Ana Filipa Vrdoljak . Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/law/9780198859871.003.0036

  • Eastern seaboard

    Forrest, Craig (2017). Eastern seaboard. The law of the sea: the African Union and its member states. (pp. 63-110) edited by P.H.G. Vrancken and M. Tsamenyi. Claremont, South Africa: Juta.

  • Immunity from seizure for works of art on loan: the criminal context

    Forrest, Craig (2016). Immunity from seizure for works of art on loan: the criminal context. Contemporary perspectives on the detection, investigation and prosecution of art crime: Australasian, European and North American perspectives. (pp. 169-184) edited by Duncan Chappell and Saskia Hufnagel. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315573922-10

  • Towards the recognition of maritime war graves in international law

    Forrest, Craig (2015). Towards the recognition of maritime war graves in international law. Underwater cultural heritage from World War I. (pp. 126-134) edited by Ulrike Guerin, Arturo Rey da Silva and Lucas Simonds. Paris, France: UNESCO Publishing.

  • Australia

    Forrest, Craig (2014). Australia. Handbook on the law of cultural heritage and international trade. (pp. 44-73) edited by James A. R. Nafziger and Robert Kirkwood Paterson. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781781007341.00009

  • Cultural heritage management and maritime law

    Forrest, Craig (2014). Cultural heritage management and maritime law. Encyclopedia of global archaeology. (pp. 1184-1189) edited by Clare Smith. New York, NY, United States: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1214

  • Immunity from seizure for works of art on loan: The criminal context

    Forrest, Craig J.S. (2014). Immunity from seizure for works of art on loan: The criminal context. Contemporary perspectives on the detection, investigation and Prosecution of Art Crime: Australasian, European and North American perspectives. (pp. 169-183) edited by Duncan Chappell and Saskia Hufnagel. Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited.

  • A New International Regime for the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage

    Forrest, Craig J.S. (2012). A New International Regime for the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage. Cultural Heritage Law. (pp. 291-334) edited by James A. R. Nafziger. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

  • Marine oil and gas pollution spills in Australian waters

    Cogliati-Bantz, Vincent, Derrington, Sarah, Forrest, Craig, Gaskell, Nick and White, Michael (2012). Marine oil and gas pollution spills in Australian waters. The regulation of international shipping: international and comparative perspectives: essays in honor of Edgar Gold. (pp. 371-400) edited by Aldo Chircop, Norman Letalik, Ted L. McDorman and Susan J. Rolston. Leiden, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. doi: 10.1163/9789004202443

  • Shipping

    Forrest, Craig (2011). Shipping. Australian coastal and marine law. (pp. 203-227) edited by Rachel J. Baird and Donald R. Rothwell. Annandale, N.S.W., Australia: Federation Press.

  • Shipping and the marine environment in Australia

    Forrest, Craig (2011). Shipping and the marine environment in Australia. Marine resources management. (pp. 123-132) edited by Warwick Gullett, Clive Schofield and Joanna Vince. Chatswood, NSW, Australia: LexisNexis Butterworths.

  • International and National Laws Relating to Archaeology Under Water

    Forrest, Craig J.S. (2008). International and National Laws Relating to Archaeology Under Water. Underwater Archaeology: The NAS Guide to Principles and Practice. (pp. 45-52) edited by Amanda Bowens. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishing.

  • South Africa

    Forrest, Craig (2006). South Africa. (pp. 247-270) Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.

  • South Africa

    Forrest, C. J. S. (2006). South Africa. The protection of underwater cultural heritage: National perspectives in light of the UNESCO Convention 2001. (pp. 247-270) edited by Sarah Dromgoole. Leiden, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhof Publishers.

  • Underwater cultural heritage at risk : The case of the Dodington Coins

    Gribble, John and Forrest, Craig (2006). Underwater cultural heritage at risk : The case of the Dodington Coins. Art and cultural heritage : Law, policy, and practice. (pp. 313-324) edited by Barbara Hoffman. New York, N.Y., United States: Cambridge University Press.

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PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • THE PLACE OF CHARTERPARTIES IN AUTONOMOUS SHIPPING

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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Completed Supervision

Possible Research Projects

Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.

  • Maritime Law

    The staff of the Marine and Shipping Law Unit (MASLU) are available to supervise research projects in the general area of national and international maritime law. These include private maritime law issues (e.g. carriage of goods, international trade, maritime casualties and environmental compensation); maritime law regulatory issues (e.g. safety and environmental protection); enforcement of maritime claims (e.g. arrest, jurisdiction, security, liens, compulsory insurance); international maritime law reform (e.g. the role of the IMO, UNCTAD, UNCITRAL and CMI) and issues arising in the Law of the Sea.

    Specific Projects include:

    • The Legal Regime of Ports in Australia: Law and Security
    • The Navigation Acts 1912-2012: Reform and Development
    • Pacific Island Maritime Law
    • Liability of Marine Pilots
    • Comparative Chinese maritime law
    • Deep Seabed mining regime

    For further information contact Professor Craig Forrest, e: c.forrest@law.uq.edu.au

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Heritage law, International law of the sea, Law - cultural heritage, Law - international sea laws, Cultural heritage law, Maritime law, Illegal fishing - law, International waters, archaeology - law, law - archaeology, Private international law, Law - private international

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