From March 21 - March 29, 2024, CLDP will sponsor various teams from Eastern Europe, MENA, South Asia, Western Balkans, and the Southern Caucasus to attend the 31st Willem C. Vis Moot competition (Vis Moot) that will take place in Vienna, Austria.

From February 14-18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP), in coordination with Arbitration Initiative Georgia, led three programs to prepare law students from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Germany to compete in the annual Willem C. Vis International...

On December 16, CLDP will facilitate the third meeting of the Caucasus and Eastern Europe Expert Level Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights (“Working Group”). The goal of the Working Group is to identify mutual challenges for the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights...

On February 14th CLDP met with Ambassador Viorel Ursu at Moldova's Embassy to the United States in Washington, DC. CLDP's multiple workstreams, areas of future cooperation, and Moldova's transitioning government were all topics of the discussion. Ambassador Ursu will be participating in CLDP's...

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 November 14-18, CLDP will hold a workshop in Warsaw, Poland and online for Ukrainian lawyers and law students on IP law and practice fundamentals. Participants will hear from U.S., Ukrainian, and Polish private sector, government, and academic experts on the foundations of IP law, as well as...

From August 29^th – September 16^th CLDP will conduct a series of consultations on the digitalization of trade corridors in the Caucasus and Eastern Europe. The goal of CLDP’s Eastern Europe Regional Customs portfolio is to boost connectivity amongst the portfolio countries and to provide them with...

On July 28, CLDP brought together delegations of IP government officials from Armenia, Moldova, Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan for the Trans-Caspian Intellectual Property Forum (“Forum”) in Batumi, Georgia. Coming on the heels of the meetings of the...

On July 27, CLDP chaired the inaugural meeting of the Eastern Europe Expert Level Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights (“Working Group”) in Batumi, Georgia. CLDP convened IP government officials from Armenia, Moldova, and Georgia for the Working Group meeting and anticipate the...