Professor Craig Forrest
Professor
TC Beirne School of Law
+61 7 334 69027
W206 Forgan Smith Building, St Lucia campus. Availability by appointment.
Researcher biography
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.
| Featured projects | Duration |
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| Reuniting orphaned cargoes: Shared heritage of the Maritime Silk Route | 2022–2026 |
Publications
Books
Forrest, Craig (2019). Maritime legacies and the law: effective legal governance of WWI wrecks. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Press. doi: 10.4337/9781784717254
Gaskell, Nicholas and Forrest, Craig (2019). The law of wreck. London, United Kingdom: Informa Law . doi: 10.4324/9781315459578
Forrest, Craig J.S. (2010). International law and the protection of cultural heritage. London, U.K. ; New York, U.S.A: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203865194
Book Chapters
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Forrest, Craig (2006). South Africa. (pp. 247-270) Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
Journal Articles
Polkinghorne, Martin, Pearson, Natali, van Duivenvoorde, Wendy, Nayati, Widya, Tahir, Zainab, Ridwan, Nia Naelul Hasanah, Forrest, Craig, Tan, Noel Hidalgo, Popelka-Filcoff, Rachel, Morton, Catherine, Kowlessar, Jarrad and Staniforth, Mark (2024). Reuniting orphaned cargoes: Recovering cultural knowledge from salvaged and dispersed underwater cultural heritage in Southeast Asia. Marine Policy, 163 106074, 106074. doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106074
Forrest, Craig (2023). South African Maritime Law. International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook, 163-171.
Forrest, Craig (2022). South Africa. International Maritime and Commercial Yearbook 2022, 2022, 187-191.
Forrest, Craig (2021). South African Maritime Law. International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook, 2021, 165-168.
Forrest, Craig (2020). South Africa. International Commercial and Maritime Law Yearbook , 2020, 345-349.
Forrest, Craig (2019). South Africa. International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook, 2019, 151-157.
Bell-James, Justine and Forrest, Craig (2019). Ecologically sustainable development and the Great Barrier Reef: a delicate balance of interests. Environmental and Planning Law Journal, 36 (2), 97-112.
Forrest, Craig (2018). South Africa. Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook 2018, 171-182.
Perez-Alvaro, Elena and Forrest, Craig (2018). Maritime archaeology and underwater cultural heritage in the disputed South China Sea. International Journal of Cultural Property, 25 (3), 375-401. doi: 10.1017/S0940739118000176
Forrest, Craig (2017). South Africa. Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook 2017, 181-188.
Forrest, Craig (2016). South Africa. Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook 2016, 200-210.
Forrest, Craig J. S. (2016). Review of Panos Koutrakos and Achilles Skordas, eds., The Law and Practice of Piracy at Sea: European and International Perspectives. Ocean Yearbook, 30 (1), 594-598.
Gaskell, Nick and Forrest, Craig (2016). The Wreck Removal Convention 2007. Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, 2016, 49-117.
Forrest, Craig J. S. (2015). South Africa. International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook, 2015, 183-194.
Forrest, Craig (2014). Immunity from seizure and suit in Australia: The protection of cultural objects on Loan Act 2013. International Journal of Cultural Property, 21 (2), 1-30. doi: 10.1017/S0940739114000046
Forrest, Craig J. S. (2014). Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in Times of War. World Politics Review, 15-19.
Forrest, Craig (2014). South Africa. Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, 2014, 187-199.
Forrest, Craig (2013). Art on loan: the role of immunity in dispute resolution. Transnational Dispute Management, 10 (5), 1-9.
Forrest, Craig (2013). The scope of immunity from seizure and suit for cultural objects on loan in Australia. Media and Arts Law Review, 18 (1), 17-45.
Forrest, Craig J. S. (2013). South African Maritime Law. Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, 2013 (Yearbook), 194-201.
Cogliati-Bantz, Vincent P. and Forrest, Craig J. S. (2013). Consistent: the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2 (3), 536-561. doi: 10.7574/cjicl.02.03.120
Forrest, Craig and Corrin, Jennifer (2013). Legal pluralism in the Pacific: Solomon Island's World War II heritage. International Journal of Cultural Property, 20 (1), 1-21. doi: 10.1017/S0940739112000458
Forrest, Craig (2012). Book review - 'The Oxford handbook of maritime archaeology'. Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs, 4 (2), 69-71. doi: 10.1080/18366503.2012.10815703
Forrest, Craig (2012). Culturally and environmentally sensitive sunken warships. Australian and New Zealand Maritime Law Journal, 26 (1), 80-88.
Forrest, Craig (2012). South African Maritime Law. Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, 2012, 185-195.
Dromgoole, Sarah and Forrest, Craig (2011). The Nairobi Wreck Removal Convention 2007 and hazardous historic shipwrecks. Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, Part 1, 92-122.
Forrest, Craig J. S. (2011). UNESCO's Cultural Heritage Conventions in the Asia-pacific: The World is Not Enough. Melaka Journal of Heritage, 1 (1), 17-44.
Forrest, Craig (2010). Book review - Mille Gabriel and Jens Dahl, 'UTIMUT: past heritage - future partnerships'. International Journal of Cultural Property, 17 (4), 663-666. doi: 10.1017/S094073911000041X
Forrest, Craig (2010). Book review - Beat Schönenberger, 'The restitution of cultural assets'. International Journal of Cultural Property, 17 (3), 599-602.
Forrest, Craig (2010). The Restitution of Cultural Assets. International Journal of Cultural Property, 17 (3), 599-602. doi: 10.1017/S0940739110000287
Forrest, Craig (2009). The Hague Convention on Choice Of Court Agreements: The maritime exceptions. Journal of Private International Law, 5 (3), 491-516.
Forrest, Craig J.S. (2009). Historic Wreck Salvage: an International Perspective. Tulane Maritime Law Journal, 33 (2), 347-379.
Forrest, Craig (2009). THE HAGUE CONVENTION ON CHOICE OF COURT AGREEMENTS: THE MARITIME EXCEPTIONS. Journal of Private International Law, 5 (3), 491-516. doi: 10.1080/17536235.2009.11424368
C Forrest (2008). The Balancing of maritime interests in the Southern African oceans in light of the new international maritime security regime. The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa, 41 (1), 1-23.
Forrest, Craig (2008). The balancing of maritime interests in the Southern African oceans in light of the new international maritime security regime. Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa-Cilsa, 41 (1), 1-23.
Forrest, Craig J.S. (2008). Book Review: Modern Maritime Law (2nd Ed by Aleka Mandaraka-Sheppard'. Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, 248-250.
C Forrest (2008). At Last: a Convention on the Removal of Wrecks. Journal of International Maritime Law, 14 (5), 394-408.
Pierre-Jean Bordahandy and C Forrest (2008). Maritime Security and Maritime Law in Australia. Journal of International Maritime Law, 14 (2), 162-179.
Forrest, Craig J.S. (2008). South African Maritime Law. International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook, 1 (1), 104-111.
Forrest, Craig J.S. (2008). Review of Modern Maritime Law. Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, 2008 (2), 248-250.
White, Michael and Forrest, Craig (2008). Australian Maritime Law Update: 2007 General Maritime issues. Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce, 39 (3), 333-360.
Forrest, Craig and Gaskell, Nicholas (2008). Marine pollution damage in Australia: Implementing the Bunker Oil Convention 2001 and the Supplementary Fund Protocol 2003. University of Queensland Law Journal, 27 (2), 103-163.
Forrest, Craig (2007). Cultural heritage as the common heritage of humankind: a critical re-evaluation. Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa-Cilsa, 40 (1), 124-151.
Forrest, C. J. S. (2007). An Australian perspective on world heritage sites. Revue Juridique de L'Environnement, 27 (Numero Special), 123-130.
Forrest, C. J. S. (2007). Cultural heritage as the common heritage of humankind: A critical re-evaluation. The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa, 40 (1), 124-151.
Forrest, C. J. S. (2007). Pilots and Pilotage Law. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History, 3, 338-340.
Forrest, Craig J.S. (2007). Liability Salvage. The Journal of International Maritime Law, 13 (2), 84-88.
Forrest, Craig J. S. (2007). The doctrine of military necessity and the protection of cultural property during armed conflicts. California Western International Law Journal, 37 (2), 177-220.
Forrest, C. J. S. (2007). Australian Maritime Law update: 2006 (Part 2). Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce, 38 (3), 309-333.
Forrest, Craig J. S. (2006). The meaning of owner for the purposes of ship arrest in Australia. Journal of International Maritime Law, 12 (3), 1162-1165.
Forrest, Craig J. S. (2006). Liability for negligence of compulsory unlicensed pilots. Journal of International Maritime Law, 12 (2), 95-99.
Forrest, C J S (2006). Going, Going, Gone: Regulating the Market in Illicit Antiquities: A Book Review. International Journal of Cultural Property, 13 (3), 371-375. doi: 10.1017/s0940739106000178
Forrest, C J S (2006). Integrated Coastal Zone Management: A Critical Overview. World Maritime University Journal of Maritime Affairs, 5 (2), 207-222. doi: 10.1007/BF03195105
Forrest, C J S (2006). Liability for pure economic loss in Maritime Torts confirmed. Journal of International Maritime Law, 12 (2), 103-106.
Forrest, Craig (2006). Lyndel Prott, ed., Finishing the Interrupted Voyage: Papers of the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Workshop on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. International Journal of Cultural Property, 13 (2), 247-251. doi: 10.1017/S0940739106000099
Forrest, C. J. S. and White, M. (2006). Australian Maritime Law update: 2005. Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce, 37 (3), 299-329.
Forrest, C. J. S. (2005). The portection of Cultural Heritage in South Africa and its Implementatuion of the 1970 UNESCO Convention. Art Antiquity and Law, 10 (1), 1-27.
Forrest, C. J. S. (2005). Liability for pure economic loss in maritime torts. Journal of International Maritime Law, 11 (3), 177-182.
Forrest, Craig J. S. (2005). A Career in Maritime Law. Shipping in Australia, 2004-2005, 103-103.
Forrest, C. J. S. (2004). Australia's protection of foreign states cultural heritage. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 27 (3), 605-630.
Forrest, C. J. S. (2004). The illicit trade in Iraqi heritage: Considerations for the Australian art and antiquities market. Alternative Law Journal, 29 (3), 121-126.
Cappa, C. L., Forrest, C. J. S., Hinchy, R. D. and Nase, V. (2003). Tort deform or tort reform? Winding back the clock on negligence. Alternative Law Journal, 28 (5), 212-215.
Forrest, C. J. S. (2003). Strengthening the international regime for the prevention of the illicit trade in cultural heritage. Melbourne Journal of International Law, 4 (2), 592-610.
Forrest, CJS (2003). Has the application of salvage law to underwater cultural heritage become a thing of the past?. Journal of Maritime Law And Commerce, 34 (2), 309-349.
Forrest, Craig (2003). An international perspective on sunken state vessels as underwater cultural heritage. Ocean Development And International Law, 34 (1), 41-57. doi: 10.1080/00908320390154583
Forrest, C. J. S. (2002). Defining 'underwater cultural heritage'. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 31 (1), 3-11. doi: 10.1006/ijna.2002.1022
Forrest, C. J. S. and Gribble, J. (2002). The illicit movement of underwater cultural heritage: The case of the Dodington coins. International Journal of Cultural Property, 11 (2), 267-293. doi: 10.1017/S0940739102771439
Forrest, C. J. S. (2002). A new international regime for the protection of underwater cultural heritage. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 51 (3), 511-554. doi: 10.1093/iclq/51.3.511
Forrest, Craig J. S. (2001). Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage: Draft Convention Finalised. International Law Association Newsletter, 21, 5-5.
Forrest, Craig (2000). 'Negotiating the past: the making of memory in South Africa' Sarah Nutall and Carli Coetzee (eds). Oral History, 28 (2), 108-109.
Craig Forrest (2000). Salvage Law and the Wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic. Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, 1
Forrest, Craig J.S. and P Fletcher-Tomenius (2000). Historic wreck in International Waters: Conflict or Consensus. Marine Policy, 24 (1), 1-10. doi: 10.1016/S0308-597X(99)00019-6
Forrest, Craig J.S. and P Fletcher-Tomenius (2000). The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage and the Challenge to UNCLOS. Art, Antiquity and Law, 5(5)
Craig Forrest (1998). Sate Claims to Shipwrecks in the US: The Brother Jonathan. Lloyd's Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly, 4, 509-514.
Conference Papers
Forrest, Craig (2023). World War II Shipwreck preservation: legal perspectives. UNESCO Workshop: World War Shipwrecks in Southeast Asia – threats of marine pollution and looting, Jakarta, Indonesia, 6-7 December 2023.
Forrest, Craig (2023). The social history of artefacts and the law in Southeast Asia. 5th Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage, Gwangju, South Korea, 13-18 November 2023.
Lekker, Ellen and Forrest, Craig (2023). Motivating and enabling Pacific States to ratify the 2001 Convention. 5th Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Hertiage, Gwangju, South Korea, 13-18 November 2023.
Forrest, Craig (2023). Clarifying the Convention’s demands: Lesson from three Pacific Island States. Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 14-15 September 2023.
Forrest, Craig (2023). The UNESCO Convention and Fiji. UNESCO FIJI Workshop, Suva, Fiji, 31 August-1 September 2023.
Forrest, Craig (2022). Challanges for Pacific Flag States at IMO: a case study of the Marshall Islands. Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 12-14 October 2022.
Forrest, Craig (2022). Shipping or Climate Change - A dilemma for Low-Lying Pacific Open Registries. Climate Change, Maritime Law and Ocean Governance, Hong Kong, 27-28 January 2022.
Forrest, Craig (2021). 2001 UNESCO Convention and the Marshall Islands. Consultation Workshop on the 2001 UNESCO Underwater Cultural Heritage Convention in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Majuro, Marshall Islands, 7-8 December 2021.
Forrest, Craig (2021). 2001 UNESCO Convention and Solomon Islands. Consultation Workshop on the 2001 UNESCO Underwater Cultural Heritage Convention in the Solomon Islands, Honiara, Solomon Islands, 23-24 June 2021.
Forrest, Craig (2021). The New Australian Regime on Historic Shipwrecks
. Art and Cultural Heritage: Australian and International Perspectives, Sydney, Australia, 9 June 2021.
Forrest, Craig (2020). Human remains on sunken warships. HMAS Perth - Historic Shipwreck Management, Sydney/Indonesia, 16 - 26 November 2020.
Forrest, Craig (2020). Towards the recognition of legacy wrecks as memorials and maritime war graves. International Workshop on the Legal Regime of Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) and Marine Scientific Research (MSR), Bodrum, Turkey, 4-5 October 2018. Ankara, Turkey: Ankara University.
Forrest, Craig (2019). The future of shipwrecks and underwater cultural heritage in Australia and New Zealand. 46th National Conference of the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand, 11-13 September 2019.
Forrest, Craig (2019). MV Solomon Trader. UQSIP MASLU Twilight Panel Session, University of Queensland, 27 June 2019.
Forrest, Craig (2018). Towards the Recognition of Legacy Wrecks as Memorials and Maritime War Graves. The Legal Regime of Underwater Cultural Heritage and Marine Scientific Research, Bodrum, Turkey, 4-5 October 2018.
Forrest, Craig J. S. (2017). The Law of Wreck. Chinese University of Hong Kong School of Law Semianr Series, Hong Kong, 21 April 2017.
Forrest, Craig J. S. (2016). Salvage contracts and the Nairobi Convention. AMSA's Salvage and Wreck Workshop, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 15-16 June 2016.
Forrest, Craig (2016). Salvage Contracts & the Nairobi Convention. AMSA's Salvage & Wreck Workshop, National Maritime Museum, Sydney, 15-16 June 2016.
Forrest, Craig (2016). State cooperation in combating transboundary marine pollution in South East Asia. Maritime Law in the Asia-Pacific Region, Wellington, New Zealand, 25-26 February 2016. Murdoch, WA, Australia: Murdoch University * School of Law.
Forrest, Craig (2015). Towards the recognition of maritime war graves in international law. Scientific Conference on the Occasion of the Centenary of World War I, Bruges, Belgium, 26-27 June 2014. Paris, France: UNESCO.
Forrest, Craig J.S. (2015). Indemnities and Towage Contracts. Indemnities and Guarantees in Maritime Law: Global Shipping Forum 2015, Singapore, 7-8 December.
Forrest, Craig (2014). Why Australia should ratify the Convention. AIMA 2013: Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology Conference. UNESCO 2001 CPUCH Workshop, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 3-5 October, 2013. Fremantle, WA, Australia: Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology.
Corrin, Jennifer Clare and Forrest, Craig J. S. (2014). A model law to implement the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage and its possible application in plural legal regimes in Pacific small islands states: a case study of Solomon Islands. Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural heritage, Hawaii, 12-16 May 2014.
Forrest, Craig J.S. (2013). The Legal Impact, Potentials and Importance of the 2001 Convention for Australia. Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology Conference, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, ANU, Canberra, 4 October.
Forrest, Craig J.S. (2013). The Need for Australia to Ratify the 2001 Convention. UCH Workshop, ANU, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Canberra, 3 October.
Forrest, Craig J. S. (2012). The Legal Framework and Practical Issues of the 2001 Convention in the Asian Context. UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage, Koh Hong, Cambodia, 14 -15 May 2012.
Forrest, Craig J. S. (2012). Jurisdiction Clauses in International Contracts and in Contracts for the Transportation of Goods: Issues All at Sea. Law Evenings: UNISA Research Seminar Series, South Australia, Australia, 28 November 2012.
Forrest, Craig J. S. (2012). The Scope of Immunity from Seizure for Cultural Objects on Loan in Australia. University of South Australia School of Law Seminar Series, Adelaide, Australia, 29 November 2012.
Forrest, Craig J. S. (2012). Legal Pluralism in the Pacific: Solomon Island's World War II Heritage. Critical Approaches to Museums and Heritage, Brisbane, Australia, 10 May 2012.
Forrest, Craig J. S. (2012). The Nairobi Wreck Removal Convention. Hong Kong Centre for Maritime and Transportation Law and Hong Kong Law Society Seminar, Hong Kong, 23 February 2012.
Forrest, Craig (2011). 'Hazardous and Historic Sunken Warships'. US, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Maritime Law Associations Joint Conference, Honolulu Hawaii, 1-7 December 2011.
Forrest, Craig J.S. (2008). Collateral Damage? Archaeology, War and Plunder in Iraq, 1914-2007: The Doctrine of Military Necessity and the Protection of Cultural Property During Armed Conflicts'. World Archaeological Congress, Dublin, Ireland, 30 June 2008.
Forrest, Craig (2008). The Hague Convention on Choice Of Court Agreements: the maritime exceptions. Colloquium on the Hague Choice of Courts Convention, University of Southern Queensland, 3 October 2009.
Forrest, Craig J. S. (2008). 'Applying a Source State's Property Law in a Market State's Court: a Reconsideration of the Theory of Renvoi and Its Application to Cultural Heritage'. World Archaeological Congress, Dublin, Ireland, 30 June 2008.
Forrest, C J S and Gribble, (2006). Perspectives from the Southern Hemisphere: Australia and South Africa. The UNESCO Convention for the Protection of Underwater Heritge, London, 28 October 2005. Portsmouth: Nautical Archaeology Society.
Forrest, Craig J. S. (2006). An Australian perspective on world heritage sites. Le Droit de l'Environment en Novelle-Caledonie, Noumea, New Caledonia, 6-8 November 2006.
Generic Document
Seminar Paper
Corrin, Jennifer and Forrest, Craig (2016). Wrecks and Relics: Emerging Heritage in Solomon Islands. UQ Anthropology Museum Seminar Series. UQ Anthropology Museum.
Reference Entry
Forrest, C. J. S. (2002). Mozambique.
Research Reports
Gaskell, Nicholas and Forrest, Craig (2024). Submission to Joint Standing Committee on Treaties inquiry into the Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Parliament of Australia.
Forrest, Craig (2023). Gap Analysis and National Interest Analysis: UNESCO UCH Convention and the Laws of Fiji. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland.
Gaskell, Nick and Forrest, Craig (2022). Submission in Response to March 2022 draft Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS): Australia’s accession to the Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks 2007. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
Forrest, Craig (2022). Submission: Joint Standing Committee on treaties, Australian Parliament - 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage . Brisbane, Australia: TC Beirne School of Law.
Nuttall, Peter, Gerrard, Michael, Webb, Romany, Forrest, Craig, Miiligan, Ben and Smith, Tristan (2021). Marshall Islands maritime investment project: registries assessment and options technical assistance - phase II. Port Vila, Vanuatu: University of the South pacific.
Gaskell, Nick and Forrest, Craig (2021). Submission in Response to draft Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS): Australia’s accession to the Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks 2007. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
Forrest, Craig , Varmer, Ole and Carter, Matthew (2021). Gap Analysis and National Interest Analysis: Underwater Cultural Heritage & Law in the Solomon Islands. Apia, Samoa: UNESCO.
Nuttall, Peter, Webb, Romany, Gerrard, Michael, Lamont, Katelyn, Forrest, Craig, Rojon, Isabelle and Milligan, Ben (2019). Republic of the Marshall Islands registries assessment technical assistance project: costs and benefits of the Marshall Islands ship and corporate registries in the context of climate change and sustainable development. Port Vila, Vanuatu: University of the South Pacific.
Gaskell, Nicholas and Forrest, Craig (2014). Research consultancy report for Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) on the Nairobi international convention on the removal of wrecks, 2007. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland.
Audio Documents
Forrest, Craig (2018). Wrecks in the Pacific. ABC Radio Australia.
Forrest, Craig (2017). Australia’s War Wrecks. ABC Radio, Nightlife with Philip Clark, Sarah Macdonald. ABC Radion Nightlife with Philip Clark, Sarah Macdonald.