On March 30-31, CLDP led a training on legislative drafting at the Bahrain National Assembly for members (MPs), staff and legal advisors of the Council of Representatives. During the March 30 training for 12 MPs and 10 of their legal staff, CLDP expert-advisors discussed U.S. legislative drafting...

On March 29, CLDP led a panel on Women and the Law at Bahrains first Businesswomen Societys International Entrepreneurship Conference.

CLDP hosted a delegation of franchising stakeholders from Tunisia and Algeria in Paris, France from March 18-20, 2016, for aWorkshop on Franchising and Visit to Franchise Expo Paris.

On March 3rd, CLDP led a conference addressing the challenges to private-sector growth in Kuwait. The program, held in cooperation with Kuwaits Supreme Council of Planning Development (SCPD) and the Arab Planning Institute, brought together government officials, private-sector representatives...

On March 17-24, 2016, CLDP sponsored three Middle East law schools: University of Baghdad,Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences of Tunis, andUniversity of Jordan to participate in the 23rd Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (Vis Moot) in Vienna, Austria.

CLDP lead two consecutive works on competitive tendering of power projects in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The first program focused on how to tender power projects to attract international developers and investors and how to structure the bids for purchase by cross-border buyers.

CLDP and AC Franchise organized a one-day Franchise Business Club Workshop directed toward current and future franchisors in Tunis, Tunisia on February 15, 2016.

On February 9-13, 2016 in Manama, CLDP hosted the 6th Annual Middle East Vis Pre-Moot, in coordination with Bahrain Center of Disputes and Resolutions (BCDR), the Royal University for Women, Mena Chambers, and the University of Pittsburg (CILE).

CLDP has been working with an inter-agency group comprised of Iraqs ministries that conduct scientific research to help train managers of technology incubators. A key objective of this group is to promote technology-based entrepreneurship, in particular, through the development of technology...