Ms Heather Forrest
Lecturer, Faculty of The Professions, School of Law
Qualifications
BA (Language and International Trade), JD, LLM, Member of the New York Bar
Contact
| Email: | heather.forrest@une.edu.au |
| Room: | W037 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3827 (or +61 2 6773 3827 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3602 |
Prior to joining the School of Law in 2007, Heather practiced law as a member of the New York (USA) Bar in the London office of US-based firm Kilpatrick Stockton LLP. In practice, she represented a wide range of clients in luxury brand goods, technology, entertainment/media, and food and beverage business sectors on an international team providing intellectual property, IT, and general corporate legal advice to North American and European companies. Heather has practiced IP law in both the USA and in England.
Particular areas of research interest include intellectual property rights in the context of domain names and global licensing of IP rights.
Publications
Heather Ann Forrest, (forthcoming) ‘Jurisprudence Meets Epistemology: Facilitating legal understanding and meaningful learning in legal education with concept maps’ (2008) Legal Education Review.
Craig Collins and Heather Ann Forrest, Intellectual Property (2008) Sydney: Lexis Nexis Butterworths.
Andrew Terry and Heather Forrest, ‘Where’s the beef? Why Burger King is Hungry Jack’s in Australia and Other Complications in Building a Global Franchise Brand’ (2008) 28(2) Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business 171.
Heather Ann Forrest, ‘Utility Model: Widening the Economic Divide between “Legacy” and “New” EU Member States’ (2004) 32(5) International Business Lawyer 216.
Heather Forrest, ‘Case Comment: Eldred v. Ashcroft’ (Nov. 2003) Intellectual Property Today 38.
Heather Ann Forrest, ‘Open Market, Open Source’ (2003) Duke Law and Technology Review 28.
Rajita Sharma and Heather Forrest, ‘A Lifeline for Infringing Ships?’ (2003) 25(9) European Intellectual Property Review 430.
Heather Ann Forrest, ‘Note: Drawing a Line in the Constitutional Sand Between Congress and the Foreign Citizen Cybersquatter’ (2001) 9 Bill of Rights Journal 461.
Conference papers
Heather Forrest, Transfers of goodwill without business names: A franchise in disguise (Paper to be presented at the Franchise Law Colloquium: Perspectives on Relational Arrangements in Franchising, Bond University, 21 November 2008).
Heather Ann Forrest, ‘Brand Britain: Representations of “Britishness” in Australian Trade Marks’ (Paper presented at the Britishness, Citizenship and Identity Conference, Huddersfield, UK, 5-6 June 2008).