CLDP, in partnership with the USAID Mission in Mali, French Customs and the International Institute for Counterfeit Medicines, and the Malian Government (GOM) organized a workshop October 17-19, 2011 to improve the skills and effectiveness of the Malian Customs Service for a better enforcement of...

CLDP, in collaboration with the Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA) of the USPTO, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. State Department (DOS), and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) organized a program from August 1-5, 2011, entitled US Consultations on the...

CLDP led a three-day workshop in Kigali, Rwanda, June 6-8, 2011, focusing on the judiciarys role in promoting intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and enforcement throughout the East African region.The outcome of this workshop resulted in a series of recommendations for the East African...

CLDP participated in a two-day meeting to finalize the constitutive and governing documents and a preliminary two-year agenda for the Africa Law Institute. The meeting also succeeded in determining a location for ALI and its launch.

CLDP held a three-day conference during which the model investment law drafting committee, organized by CLDP, presented the finalized model investment law drafted over two previous sessions to ECOWAS, OHADA and WAEMU officials and government officials from the region's nations.

To facilitate regional legal and judicial ethics codes synthesizing the region's common law and civil law traditions, CLDP organized a three-day conference in Senegal where a pre-exsiting drafting committee presented a regional legal and judicial ethics code.

CLDP held a four (4) day conference for representatives from the Angolan Ministry of Justice and the private sector to discuss the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) practices that may be used in Africa.

The CLDP team traveled to Angola from January 16-27.

CLDP held a training to implement modern case management techniques and random selection of judges in the provincial court of Cabinda, Angola.

CLDP staff and advisors completed the initial stage of installation of a computer network at the Palácio D. Ana Joaquina court building in Luanda.