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 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...

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...

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...

On September 12^th and 13^th, CLDP will launch the trade law program at the State University of Moldova and the Free International University of Moldova. This is the first year that CLDP will support the participation of two Moldovan teams in the John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition. As part of the...

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...