CLDP organized a seminar to give Bahraini judges an overview of U.S. bilateral FTAs and the Middle East Free Trade Initiative, as well as the U.S.-Bahrain FTA commitments (labor, environment, textiles, public health, services and financial services, agriculture, and customs) and its impact on IPR...

CLDP organized two workshops in Manama, Bahrain to introduce Bahraini lawyers and judges to intellectual property rights and the benefits of protection.

With CLDP guidance, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) in Oman and the University of Bahrain (UB) competed in the Vis Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria. CLDP advisors prepared faculty and students for the competition with pre-moot exercises and guidance on writing memoranda and effective...

To follow up on previously held commercial law workshops for Bahrain's legal and judicial community, CLDP facilitated consultations with U.S. federal judges in New York, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. in July 2009.

A delegation of Customs officials from the Kingdom of Bahrain was in Washington, DC the week of September 28, 2009, participating in consultations with experts from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and the private sector.

Working toward compliance with the US-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement, ten Bahraini customs officials met met with two experts from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection for consultations focusing on the procedures surrounding advance rulings.

The First Annual Willem C. Vis Middle East International Commercial Arbitration Pre-Moot took place April 12-13, 2011 in Vienna, Austria

In a March 11th 2006 letter to CLDP, the Bahrain Minister of Industry and Commerce, thanked CLDP's efforts in developing the new Commercial Companies Law in Bahrain.

This event marked the culmination of a three-year effort by CLDP, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) and the National Committee on Corporate Governance to develop a corporate governance code, under the auspices of the Bahrain Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Central Bank...