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 conference was led by a team of five topical experts and two CLDP attorneys.

CLDP organized consultations in November 2005 in Washington, D.C. for a delegation of public and private sector experts and franchising stakeholders from Algeria.

Customs officials from Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbian and Montenegro, and UNMIK/Kosov (as observers) attended the fifth in a series of CLDP customs workshops desigend to achieve enhanced communication, cooperation, and coordination amongst th

CLDP continues to provide assistance to the Middle East by assisting with the development of curricula that will introduce international norms and practices of commercial law to the law schools in the region.

As part of CLDP's ongoing support of Russia and Ukraine's efforts to make the protection of intellectual property rights under their Commercial Codes more compliant with the TRIPS Agreement, CLDP conducted a five-day workshop for Russian and Ukrainian border enforcement officials nominated by the Ru