Congratulations to the Vis Moot team representing the Royal Institute of Colombo, coached by The Moot Court Bench for making history as the first Sri Lankan team to win the Willem C. Vis East Moot!  After 8 months of intensive training, drafting memoranda, facing multiple practice rounds with...

From March 19-26, 2023, law students representing 8 universities from Sri Lanka, Nepal, the Maldives, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and the Kyrgyz Republic competed among 111 universities in the 20th Annual Willem C. Vis East Moot in Hong Kong. CLDP sponsored the teams' participation in this premier...

From March 20 – 22, 2023, CLDP organized a workshop and roundtable series in Hong Kong in support of Uzbek ADR stakeholders, including practitioners, representatives from the Tashkent International Arbitration Center (TIAC) and officials from the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Investment, Industry...

From February 24 – 27, CLDP organized a series of round tables in Karachi, Pakistan, in support of three ADR Centers: the Musaliha International Center for Arbitration and Dispute Resolution (MICADR), the Center for International Investment & Commercial Arbitration (CIICA) and the Institute of...

On February 10, CLDP provided a one-day workshop on International Commercial Arbitration to staff of the Centre for Economic Dispute Resolution and the National University of Laos. The program specifically covered arbitral agreements and enforcement of awards.

On January 14, 2023, CLDP supported partners, the Legal Aid Society, as they conducted a Workshop on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Mechanisms for Judges of the Islamabad High Court. The workshop opened with an introduction to mediation, before proceeding to host a mediation simulation and...

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...

On February 2-3, 2023, CLDP, in coordination with the University of Sarajevo Faculty of Law, hosted a two-day workshop which aims to provide an overview of arbitration principles and best practices to private sector participants in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition to local private sector experts...

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...