On February 9, the Chairman of the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia – Sakpatenti, Soso Giorgadze, visited CLDP’s office to meet with Chief Counsel Steve Gardner and members of the Georgia program implementation team. CLDP and Sakpatenti reflected on their long-standing and productive...

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...

On January 25-27, in coordination with USAID, the Culture Committee of the Georgian Parliament, and Sakpatenti, Georgia’s Intellectual Property Agency, CLDP lead a Roundtable discussion regarding policy justifications and sample legislative language for amendments to Georgia’s Copyright Law to close...

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...

On December 8-10, 2022, CLDP, Georgian National Competition Agency (GNCA), and the Georgian National Communications Commission (GNCC) held a three-day workshop on Competition in Telecommunications: Workshop on Mergers and Anticompetitive Agreements in the Telecom Sector (“Workshop”) to further...

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...

CLDP outlined recommendations and next steps at a USAID-organized Public-Private Dialog regarding Georgia’s ongoing reform of its Collective Management Organizations (CMOs). CLDP’s work focuses on both the legislative and institutional reforms required to bring Georgia’s CMOs into alignment with...

CLDP co-sponsored and participated in a public-private Working Group meeting on Insolvency Reform in coordination with Georgia’s Business Rehabilitation and Insolvency Practitioners Association (BRIPA). The Working Group meeting provided a platform to Georgian bankruptcy practitioners and judges to...

On September 20-21, 2022, CLDP, in partnership with Arbitration Initiative Georgia (AIG), conducted a two-day Training of Trainers Workshop for the 12^th Annual Tbilisi Vis Pre-Moot. The workshop brought together the coaches of Vis Moot teams from Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan for training...

On September 27-29, 2022, CLDP, in partnership with the Georgia Revenue Service (GRS), conducted a three-day workshop on Best Practices: TFA Article 7 Post Clearance Audit & Risk Management (“Workshop”) to further develop the GRS’s capacity in these critical areas of customs enforcement. The...