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...

CLDP will travel to Geneva, Switzerland from June 27^th – July 1^st to conduct an assessment for its Eastern Europe Regional and Moldova Bilateral portfolios. CLDP will hold meetings with the WTO’s Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation, International Road Transport Union, the International...

CLDP will travel to Chisinau, Moldova from June 20-24 to conduct an assessment for existing work on its public procurement, sanitary and phytosanitary measures development, customs, intellectual property, and women’s economic empowerment programs. CLDP will also discuss new work related to state...

On May 25^th and 26^th, CLDP hosted a workshop on 5G Deployment and Untrusted Vendors Screening in coordination with experts from the Federal Communications Commission. This workshop was a follow-up to CLDP’s previous engagements in Kosovo focused on 5G preparedness and securing the next generation...