From February 22-26, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP), in coordination with Arbitration Initiative Georgia, led the 12^th Annual Tbilisi Vis Pre-Moot with three programs to prepare law students from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, and Germany to...

From March 28-April7, 2023, CLDP will sponsor six teams from the Western Balkans, and 3 teams from the Southern Caucasus to attend the 30th Willem C. Vis Moot competition (Vis Moot) that will take place in Vienna, Austria from March 31-April 7, 2023. On March 28-29, the teams will participate in the...

From February 10-11, 2023, CLDP, in coordination with Association ARBITRI and the University of Zenica, held a two-day Pre-Moot competition to prepare law students for the 30th Willem C. Vis Moot competition (Vis Moot) that will take place this April in Vienna. There will be a total of 8...

From February 6-8, 2023, CLDP, in coordination with Association ARBITRI and the University of Zenica, held a three-day training on oral advocacy to prepare law students from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Kosovo, and Germany for the 30th Willem C. Vis Moot competition (Vis Moot) that will take place...

On October 26 – 28, CLDP, in cooperation with the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for International Legal Education and the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, will host a comprehensive legal writing and research program in Cairo, Egypt, for law school teams set to...

On November 17-19, 2022, CLDP, in partnership with Arbitration Initiative Georgia (AIG), conducted a three-day workshop on writing concepts in commercial arbitration as part of CLDP’s preparation programming for the 12^th Annual Tbilisi Vis Pre-Moot. The workshop brought together the coaches and...

On October 27-30, CLDP, in collaboration with Embassy Sarajevo, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Law, and Association ARBITRI, conducted the Vis Moot Written Arguments Training in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Five teams from BiH and one team from Kosovo participated in the...

From April 8 to April 12, CLDP will conduct in-person trainings for a team of Belarusian and Ukrainian law students from the European Humanities University (EHU) in Vilnius focused on international commercial arbitration, oral argument, and conflict of laws in international commercial contracting...

From February 7 to 28, 2022, CLDP, in cooperation with the University of Pittsburgh Center for International Legal Education, conducted a virtual “boot camp” training on oral advocacy in international commercial arbitration for university teams preparing to compete in the 29th Annual Willem C. Vis...

On March 7-12, CLDP, in cooperation with the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution (BCDR), the University of Pittsburgh Center for International Legal Education (CILE), and the Royal University for Women (RUW), in additional to other resource partners, hosted the 12th annual Middle East Vis Pre...