Corporate Capabilities

Countries

Afghanistan

Afghanistan Procurement Strengthening

Description: ILI provided various procurement-related services to the Afghan interim government. This project included executive procurement services, legal and regulatory reform, and an extensive program of capacity building.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

Public Administration and Capacity Building Project – Procurement Capacity Building and Legal & Institutional Framework Development for Procurement in Afghanistan

Description: ILI assisted in building local procurement capacity and developing regulations and procedures under the new national procurement law in Afghanistan.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

Albania

Strengthening Public Procurement Capabilities

Description: ILI worked with Albanian officials to develop procurement regulation and model bidding documents. ILI also provided training and training-of-trainer services to local officials.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

Teaching and Course Management

Description: Ten law professors from the University of Tirana School of Law came to Washington, DC for a three-week course to improve their law-teaching skills and methodologies.

Keywords: Legal Education

Angola

Reform of Legal Procurement Framework

Description: ILI was hired by the Government of Angola to complete a multi-stage project supporting an Angolan Task Force in implementing the reform of the national legal public procurement system, integrating the rules and other procedures to be observed when procuring goods and services.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

Armenia

Commercial Law and Economic Regulation

Description: The Commercial Law and Economic Regulation Program (CLERP) facilitated the reform process of Armenia’s legal, regulatory, and administrative entities that promote the development of commercial law. ILI provided technical assistance on procurement law and provided tailored training programs on the WTO agreements.

Keywords: Commercial Law, Public Procurement / International Procurement, International Trade

Law Making and Development

Description: This was a three-week seminar for a group of legislators and legislative staff from Armenia. The seminar covered a detailed review of the legislative process, the theory of legislation and development, and specific consideration of labor legislation and of foreign investment legislation.

Keywords: Legislative Process Development and Management

Negotiating and Financing Foreign Investment

Description: This three-week seminar was designed to meet the special needs of Armenian officials involved in developing and regulating private investment in their countries. The course dealt with private investment laws, taxation issues, project finance, joint ventures, and privatization through foreign investment.

Keywords: International Investment

Training for Armenian Lawyers and Judges

Description: This project trained Armenian lawyers and judges to be instructors in a continuing legal and judicial education program to be operated by the American University in Armenia.

Keywords: Legal Education

Azerbaijan

Development of Competition Policy Framework

Description: ILI worked with the Government of Azerbaijan to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Department of Antimonopoly Policy (DAP) of the Ministry of Economic Development (MED) and to develop a competition policy framework.

Keywords: Anti-competitive Business Practices

Belarus

Belarus Legal Reform

Description: This was an effort in which ILI and the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld provided technical assistance and training in the area of contract, property, and company law reform.

Keywords: Contract Law, Property Law, Corporate Law

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Federal Cantonal Court Judge Training

Description: Eleven judges from various cantonal (district) courts from Bosnia and Herzegovina spent three weeks in Washington for an overview of the court system of the United States. Emphasis was placed on modern methods of caseload management, network communication systems, and administration of justice.

Keywords: Judicial Training and Court Administration Reform

Judicial Training and Court Administration

Description: Judges from Bosnia- Republika Srpska were in Washington, DC for two weeks to receive training on improving their adjudication and court management skills. The program included a comparative session on the judiciaries of the U.S. and Republika Srpska.

Keywords: Judicial Training and Court Administration Reform

Bulgaria

Anti-Corruption Practices and the Telecommunications Sector

Description: This two-week seminar was organized and executed by ILI for four senior officials from the Bulgarian telecommunications sector and the Bulgarian judiciary. The objectives of this program were to improve the skills of Bulgarian officials for preventing corrupt practices.

Keywords: Anti-corruption

Bulgarian Intellectual Property Rights

Description: This program was designed for thirteen members of the Bulgarian Intellectual Property Rights Group. During the two- week program, the participants met with officials from relevant U.S. Government offices, including the U.S. Copyright Office and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

Keywords: Intellectual Property Rights

Bulgarian NGO Law Drafting

Description: ILI conducted a two-week training program on NGO Law Drafting for Bulgarian legal drafters. This course introduced its participants to the principles and practices of US NGO law and relevant legislation to be used as a model for developing the legal infrastructure of the NGO sector in Bulgaria.

Keywords: NGO Law, Legislative Drafting

Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights

Description: Six senior Bulgarian officials, from the prosecution office of Sofia and various economic police and investigation agencies, spent two and a half weeks engaged in a program, designed to make prosecution of intellectual property-related crimes more efficient and to improve coordinated cross-agency law enforcement.

Keywords: Intellectual Property Rights

China

Accessing U.S. Financial Markets

Description: The Office of the Deputy Mayor of Shanghai sponsored this study tour for thirteen senior financial officers of Chinese private and public enterprises. The group was interested in the structure and investment decision-making processes of U.S. companies.

Keywords: Corporate Finance

Arbitration and Mediation Review

Description: ILI provided Chinese provincial Ministers of Justice a review of arbitration and mediation techniques.

Keywords: Alternative Dispute Resolution

China Banking Law and Regulation

Description: The mission of this project was to assist the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) to draft a set of laws and regulations, to amend legislation to make it consistent with the PRC’s WTO commitments, and to advise the PBOC how to properly regulate financial conglomerates and resolve bank insolvencies.

Keywords: Financial Sector Development and Reform

Enforcement of World Trade Organization Rules by the Judicial System

Description: This program was composed of a series of training sessions specially designed for approximately two hundred fifty judges. The program’s purpose was to assist the Chinese judicial system in the compliance with WTO requirements and strengthening of the rule of law.

Keywords: Judicial Training and Court Administration Reform, International Trade

Forum on New Legal Strategies and Issues Affecting China Trade

Description: ILI lectured a group of senior lawyers from Beijing, China on legal strategies and issues affecting China Trade. Keywords: International Trade

International Procurement

Description: This was a Chinese-language version of the ILI’s popular four-week training course in international procurement policies, emphasizing World Bank procedures. Fourteen participants from the Sichuan Petroleum Agency were provided with the institutional, legal and financial issues involved in procurement.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

International Trade, Commercial Law, and Public-Private Partnerships Training

Description: ILI provided training to senior lawyers and legal experts from Zhejiang, China on International Trade Law and Dispute Settlement, Commercial Law, and Public-Private Partnerships.

Keywords: International Trade, Commercial Law, Private Participation in Infrastructure Development and Finance

International Trade, Commercial Law, and Public-Private Partnerships Training

Description: ILI provided training to senior lawyers and legal experts from Jiangsu, China on International Trade Law and Dispute Settlement, Commercial Law, and Public-Private Partnerships.

Keywords: International Trade, Commercial Law, Private Participation in Infrastructure Development and Finance

International Trade, Commercial Law, and Public-Private Partnerships Training

Description: ILI provided training to senior lawyers and legal experts from Zhejiang, China on International Trade Law and Dispute Settlement, Commercial Law, and Public-Private Partnerships.

Keywords: International Trade, Commercial Law, Private Participation in Infrastructure Development and Finance

International Trade, Commercial Law, and Public-Private Partnerships Training

Description: ILI provided training to senior lawyers and legal experts from Jiangsu, China on International Trade Law and Dispute Settlement, Commercial Law, and Public-Private Partnerships.

Keywords: International Trade, Commercial Law, Private Participation in Infrastructure Development and Finance

Lecture on WTO and International Trade Disputes

Description: ILI lectured on WTO and International Trade Disputes at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Beijing, China.

Keywords: International Trade

Lecture on WTO and International Trade Disputes

Description: ILI lectured on WTO and International Trade Disputes at Southwest University in Chongqing, China. Keywords: International Trade

Legal Education Training Partnership with Southwest University

Description: ILI signed MOU with Southwest University in Chongqing, China for creating mutually beneficial legal training programs. Keywords: Legal Education

Official Certification by the Government of China [SAFEA] as Authorized Overseas Training Organization

Description: ILI has been officially Certified as a proven and trusted resource to provide training and technical expertise to central and provincial governments and state-owned entities on mainland China as well as receive officially sponsored and State financed delegations for overseas training. The International Law Institute is honored to have received special recognition and official Certification by the State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs of China (SAFEA). ILI has been specifically certified in the fields of Law, Economics and Finance. SAFEA manages, organizes and implements foreign entities to provide expert training and technical expertise to China. SAFEA is responsible for evaluating and certifying these foreign experts. Certified training organizations have undergone thorough evaluations by regional SAFEA officials, China Embassy personnel, as well as formal evaluation from its primary officials in Beijing.

Keywords: SAFEA / Certification / China / Training

Procurement Law

Description: This program was a two-week training course for procurement officials of the Sichuan Petroleum Agency in Chengdu. ILI provided instructors and course materials covering the important elements of international competitive procurements of goods and services.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

Procurement Law

Description: This was a two-week training course for procurement officials of the Sichuan Petroleum Agency in Chengdu.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

Project Analysis and Investment Decision Training

Description: This project was a two-week training course on project analysis and investment decision delivered to officials of the Sichuan Petroleum Agency.

Keywords: Project Preparation and Management, Investment

Project Management and Procurement Training

Description: This project was a two-week training course on project management and procurement delivered to officials of the Sichuan Petroleum Agency.

Keywords: Project Preparation and Management, Public Procurement / International Procurement

Specialized International Trade Law – WTO training for Shandong Lawyers

Description: ILI hosted a 15-member delegation of lawyers and legal professionals from Shandong China for a 3-month training program. Training focused on International Trade Law and WTO; International Investment Agreement and Investor State Arbitration; Commercial Arbitration; Competition Policy; Public Private Partnerships; Foreign Corrupt Practices; Corporate Governance; Government Contracts. Participants also interned as visiting lawyers at prominent DC law firms. ILI has signed an MOU with the Department of Human Resources and Social Security of Shandong Province to train up to 100 lawyers and legal professionals from Shandong Province.

Keywords: International Trade Law / International Investment Agreements – State Dispute Arbitration / Commercial Arbitration / Internships / Shandong

Training on Private Investment into China and the Stock Listing Process for NASDAQ

Description: ILI provided training on Private Investment in China and the stock listing process (NASDAQ) to senior directors of various governmental departments from Beijing, China.

Keywords: Financial Sector Development and Reform, International Investment

Visiting Scholar Program for Officials from Guizhou Province

Description: ILI hosted a Senior Judge from the Guizhou Higher People’s Court and Sr. Finance Officer from Guizhou Airlines (China Southern Air) as visiting scholars for 1 month. Participants attended programs; met with law firms; courts and federal judges; and

university faculty and conducted research under the guidance of Georgetown University Law School.

Keywords: Visiting Scholars

Visiting Scholar Program for Officials from Ministry of Commerce, China

Description: ILI hosted the Director of Anti-Dumping Division at the Ministry of Commerce of China for several months. Participant conducted independent research; attended and instructed in ILI programs.

Keywords: Visiting Scholars

Dominican Republic

Legal English and Orientation in the U.S. Legal System

Description: ILI partnered with the Government of the Dominican Republic and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) to provide Legal English and Orientation in the U.S. Legal System training. Significant training was also delivered on the DR-CAFTA.

Keywords: Legal Education, International Trade

Egypt

Negotiation Skills for Trade Agreements

Description: This two-week seminar was conducted for officials from The Ministry of Trade of Egypt and covered trade agreement negotiation. Other topics studied included the structure of the international trading system, bilateral, trilateral, and multilateral trade agreements.

Keywords: International Trade

International Commercial Arbitration

Description: This seminar dealt with International Commercial Arbitration and had participants attending from Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Egypt, Uganda, Ethiopia, Bahrain, and Syria.

Keywords: Alternative Dispute Resolution

Estonia

Negotiating International Trade Agreements

Description: This two-week seminar was conducted for fourteen trade officials from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It covered the basic structure of the international trading system and both bilateral and multilateral trade agreements.

Georgia

Georgia Enterprise Growth Initiative

Description: ILI assisted in this project, which aimed to train on and promote private sector growth in Georgia through strengthening business associations, promoting commercial law and economic policy reform, strengthening the financial services sector, and supporting development of competitive economic clusters.

Keywords: Commercial Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Financial Sector Development and Reform

Georgian Antimonopoly Training

Description: This project was a combination of technical assistance and training provided to the Antimonopoly committee of the Republic of Georgia.

Keywords: Anti-competitive Business Practices

Keywords: International Trade

Study Tour for Georgian Antimonopoly Officials

Description: This program was part of a continuing ILI program of support for the Georgian Antimonopoly Committee, which encompassed a number of training and technical assistance efforts in Tbilisi as well as this program in Washington.

Keywords: Anti-competitive Business Practices

Ghana

ADR Training

Description: ILI provided ADR training to Ghanaian government officials and judges. Keywords: Alternative Dispute Resolution

Indonesia

Economic Law and Improved Procurement System (ELIPS)

Description: ILI performed a systematic assessment of Indonesian procurement law, regulations and manuals, and provided review and comment on several drafts of the Indonesian procurement law.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

Honduras

Strengthening Government Procurement

Description: ILI worked on this multi-year program, which focused on promoting the efficiency and transparency of government procurement and contracting in a sustainable way by modernizing the appropriate public sector institutions, the efficiency and transparency of procurement law, and relevant operational and organizational instruments.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

Hungary

Negotiating and Financing International Joint Ventures

Description: This one-week seminar was attended by Hungarian bankers and lawyers with responsibility for privatizing state-owned enterprises and securing foreign investment for their country.

Keywords: Public Enterprise Reform and Privatization, International Investment

Principles & Practices of Bankruptcy

Description: These one-week seminars provided Hungarian banking officials with a comparative analysis of U.S., German, and Hungarian bankruptcy law and practice, with an emphasis on the bankruptcy of banks.

Keywords: Bankruptcy

Iraq

Review and Training of Public Procurement in Iraq

Description: ILI worked through the Iraq Reconstruction and Management Office (IRMO) to provide an eight-day training on Public Procurement Procedures and a review of the draft procurement regulations to thirty members of the Iraq Interministerial Committee.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

Jamaica

Foreign Debt Management

Description: This one-week course was conducted for twenty staff members of the Jamaican Ministry of Finance. The course focused on techniques of and best practices in the management of foreign debt obligations.

Keywords: International Borrowing and Debt Management

Jordan

Sustainable Achievement of Business Expansion and Quality (SABEQ) – Expanded Trade and Investment (ETI) Component

Description: ILI was asked to examine the impact of Jordan’s international trade agreements on the service sectors in terms of market access opportunities and to identify domestic trade policy constraints.

Keywords: International Trade

Kazakhstan

Contract and Property Law

Description: This course was a two-week seminar in the basic principles of Western contract and property law. The participants were judges, professors, other government officials, and private attorneys.

Keywords: Contract Law, Property Law

External Debt Management

Description: This two-week seminar was a workshop for participants from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Topics included structural adjustment issues in external debt management, balance of payments analysis, restructuring financial and credit systems, and risk management issues.

Keywords: International Borrowing and Debt Management

International Petroleum Agreements

Description: This one-week seminar focused on financial, economic and legal issues of international petroleum agreements. It was attended by representatives of various government ministries and national oil companies.

Keywords: Oil and Gas Contracts and Dispute Resolution

Legal Education Reform in Kazakhstan

Description: Under an agreement with the Kazakh State Law Institute, ILI agreed to provide both technical assistance and training in the area of international commercial law.

Keywords: Commercial Law, Legal Education

Negotiating and Implementing Trade Agreements

Description: These two-week seminars covered the basic structure of the international trading system and both bilateral and multilateral trade agreements. The participants in Kazakhstan were mid-level government officials. In Kyrgyzstan most of the participants were from the private sector.

Keywords: International Trade

Study Tour for Uzbek and Kazakh Legal Educators

Description: This program introduced a group of legal educators from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to the American system of legal education.

Keywords: Legal Education

Trade and Investment: Policy Issues and Implementation

Description: This four-week seminar for senior economics officials from Kazakhstan focused on international agreements in trade and investment. The seminar also addressed more general issues of privatization, international trade, taxation, export financing and legislative drafting.

Keywords: International Trade, International Investment, Public Enterprise Reform and Privatization, Taxation, Legislative Drafting

Training Session for Eurasian Development Bank on Best Practices of Project Finance: Key Legal Issues

Description: ILI designed and delivered a two-day training session for the Eurasian Development Bank on the main issues that arise at each stage of an international project finance transaction and how the issues are typically resolved by other multilateral development banks using international best practices.

Keywords: International Project Finance

Kuwait

Detection, Prevention and Management of Financial Frauds and Money Laundering

Description: The Middle East Securities Training Center (MESTC) and ILI conducted a week long workshop on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Preventing Financial Crimes. This course taught safeguarding financial systems against fraudulent and terrorist purposes through legislative, regulatory and institutional initiatives.

Keywords: Financial Sector Development and Reform

Industry Analysis

Description: The Middle East Securities Training Center (MESTC) and ILI conducted a seminar on Industry Analysis. The course was designed to provide insight on industry structures, economic cycle’s impact, as well as industry specific financial tools to evaluate investment opportunities within different industries.

Keywords: Industry Analysis

Kyrgyzstan

Negotiating and Implementing Trade Agreements

Keywords: International Trade

Latvia

Training in the U.S. Judicial System

Description: This three-week program was designed for the Minister of Justice of Latvia and three of his senior staff to give a general overview of the U.S. judicial system. It focused also on two specific areas: anti-corruption measures and press relations.

Keywords: Judicial Training and Court Administration Reform, Anti-corruption

Negotiating International Trade Agreements

Keywords: International Trade

Lithuania

Negotiating International Trade Agreements

Keywords: International Trade

Mauritius

Public Procurement Reform

Description: ILI was hired by the Government of Mauritius to assist in completing a multi-phase project reforming public procurement. Phase One included working with the Government to develop a new Act and corresponding regulations. Phase Two included recommendations for the structure of three public procurement bodies.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

Mexico

Legal English and Orientation in the U.S. Legal System

Description: ILI provided Legal English and Orientation in the U.S. Legal System in Mexico. Keywords: Legal Education

Mongolia

Banking and Enterprise

Description: ILI was selected by the Mongolian Ministry of Finance to conduct this three-week seminar for bankers, lawyers and economists involved with banking reform in Mongolia. The course described and compared banking reform efforts in several other post-communist economies.

Keywords: Financial Sector Development and Reform

Banking Law and Practices

Description: This three-week training course involved over fifty judges, government officials, bankers, economic regulators and prosecutors and covered all aspects of banking legislation, including capital markets, secured transactions, lending practices, money laundering, and bankruptcy of financial institutions.

Keywords: Financial Sector Development and Reform

Bankruptcy Law Training

Description: More than sixty legal professionals and businessmen attended this three week training course designed to give an understanding of the new bankruptcy law in Mongolia. The course also provided a detailed overview of bankruptcy systems in transitional economies.

Keywords: Bankruptcy

Drafting and Negotiating International Agreements

Description: This two-week seminar was attended by thirty-five lawyers and judges from the Mongolian Parliament and twenty other government ministries and entities.

Keywords: International Agreement Drafting and Negotiation Methodologies

Legal Issues For New Market Economies

Description: This four-week seminar for senior officials from the Mongolian Ministry of Justice offered practical training on legislative drafting, international agreements, procurement, corporate law, international finance, and other critical issues for new market economies.

Keywords: Legislative Drafting, Public Procurement / International Procurement, Corporate Law, International Investment

Mongolian Financial Reform

Description: This was a course designed to introduce Mongolian Central Bank and other financial officials to basic western standards of law in the areas of banking regulation, bankruptcy, and secured transactions.

Keywords: Financial Sector Development and Reform

Procurement Training

Description: Conducted as part of an ongoing USAID Economic Policy Support Project in Mongolia, ILI designed and conducted a two- week seminar. The seminar covered government procurement and contracting procedures for public works and services, from budgeting to the delivery of the final product.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

Montenegro

Administrative Law Training for the Administrative Court of Montenegro

Description: This one-week seminar for members of the Administrative Court of Montenegro included training on administrative law, court administration and management, hearing mechanisms in administrative review, and enforcement by administrative agencies.

Keywords: Administrative Law, Judicial Training and Court Administration Reform

Nepal

Consultancy Services for Drafting Public Procurement Law, Regulations, and Related Technical Support

Description: This project involved the review of procurement related laws of the Kingdom of Nepal and the identification of provisions needed to draft the New Procurement Law and the repealing/amending of conflicting provisions of the existing laws.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

Nigeria

Economic Reform and Governance Project – Reform of Public Procurement

Description: ILI helped the Government of Nigeria in preparing a procurement capacity needs assessment, formulating the optimal organizational structure of the procurement unit in each Ministry/Department/Agency, and developing a procurement training program in accordance with identified procurement capacity needs.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

Judicial Administrative Training for the Nigerian High Courts

Description: ILI collaborated to offer a two week training course on Judicial Administration to members of the Nigerian Supreme Court and Federal High Court and to court administrators and registrars of the Nigerian High Courts.

Keywords: Judicial Training and Court Administration Reform

Training Services for the Federal Government of Nigeria on Project Management and Leadership

Description: ILI hosted a delegation from the Nigerian Ministry of Finance for a two-week training course on best practices in project management and related disciplines.

Keywords: Project Preparation and Management

Macroeconomic Policy Training Workshop

Description: Participants received high-level academic training on macroeconomic and trade policy including the relationship between deficits, inflation, interest rates and exchange rates. Participants also analyzed the economic loses engendered by ad hoc decision-making and rent-seeking behavior.

Keywords: Macroeconomic Policy

Public-Private Partnership Training in Nigeria

Description: ILI partnered with leading Nigerian law firm, AELEX, to deliver a three-day PPP training seminar to twenty-three government and private sector participants.

Keywords: Private Participation in Infrastructure Development and Finance

Peru and Andean Region

Evaluation of the Peru Micro and Small Enterprise Facilitation Program and the Andean Regional Trade Capacity Building Program

Description: ILI completed an evaluation and assessment of the ongoing Peru Micro and Small Enterprise Facilitation Program (MYPE Competitiva) and the Andean Regional Trade Capacity Building Program (ATCBP). Areas covered included access to finance, business competitiveness, and adherence to TRIPS.

Keywords: International Trade, Micro and Small Enterprise Development

Russia

Anti-Monopoly Theory and Practices

Description: This four-week seminar was given to groups of officials from the Antimonopoly Committees of Russia. The course covered the economic theory behind antitrust laws and the need for competition in all sectors of the economy.

Keywords: Anti-competitive Business Practices

Antimonopoly Law and Enforcement

Description: This was a short seminar that discussed specific problems encountered by the Russian antimonopoly committees. Topics included merger regulation, the prevention of monopolies, the promotion of competition, regulation of foreign monopolistic ownership, natural monopoly regulation and pricing policy.

Keywords: Anti-competitive Business Practices

Antimonopoly Training

Description: ILI presented a three-week seminar in each of nine Russian cities on western antitrust and consumer protection practice. ILI also provided consultants to the local Committees to assist in implementing the new law.

Keywords: Anti-competitive Business Practices

Commercial Law Judicial Training

Description: This short seminar for members of the Russian Arbitrage Courts concentrated on the international recognition of judgments, procedures used to execute judgments of foreign courts and arbitration commissions, recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards, and the 1958 New York Convention.

Keywords: Commercial Law, Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, Alternative Dispute Resolution

Electric Rate Regulation Utility Managers

Description: This was a three-week course for twelve senior managers of privatized Russian electric utilities, designed to introduce them to the principles of electric utility rate regulation as practiced in the United States.

Keywords: Utility Regulation

External Debt Management

Description: This four-week seminar was designed to provide participants with a solid foundation in the theory and practice of external debt management. The course covered the terms and conditions of actual loan agreements from a variety of international financial organizations including commercial banks.

Keywords: International Borrowing and Debt Management

Russian Legal Educators

Description: This two-week course provided fourteen Russian law professors and other legal educators with an introduction to U.S. law schools and methods of education.

Keywords: Legal Education

Legal Aspects of Capital Markets

Description: This conference provided a forum for American regulators, academics and representatives of the legal and financial communities to discuss the establishment and improvement of capital markets with their counterparts in the NIS.

Keywords: Financial Sector Development and Reform

Negotiating International Trade Agreements

Description: This seminar was specially designed for a group of senior officials from Ukraine and Russia concerned with international trade agreements. The course covered bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, import and export regulation, tariffs and GSP, free trade zones, market access issues, and intellectual property.

Keywords: International Trade

Rwanda

Government Integrity and Anti-Corruption

Description: This two-week seminar provided Rwandan government officials training on government integrity and anti-corruption. The seminar examined problems of integrity and corruption associated with governmental institutions and the role of the private sector.

Keywords: Anti-corruption

Modernization of Public Procurement in Rwanda

Description: This project was a combination of technical assistance and training to modernize the Rwandese public procurement system with a view to improving efficiency, economy and transparency of procurement.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

Saudi Arabia

International Procurement

Description: This one-week seminar was designed and organized by ILI at the request of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), in Jeddah, to train professional staff members of IsDB on the latest developments in the field of International Procurement.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

Management Development Seminar

Description: These training programs done for Saudi Aramco addressed global issues affecting Saudi Aramco. This seminar addressed problems in planning, organization, intercultural personnel management, and topics related to the interplay of energy issues, U.S. foreign policy and the influence of the media.

Keywords: Management Development, Oil and Gas Contracts and Dispute Resolution

Private Finance of Infrastructure

Keywords: Private Participation in Infrastructure Development and Finance

Slovakia

Slovakian Procurement Reform

Description: This project was a combined technical assistance and training effort in which ILI consultants were working with Slovakian officials to draft a revised public procurement law and implementing regulations.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

Taiwan

Executive Development Program for Senior Civil Servants of the Executive Yuan

Description: This training program was specially designed for eighty senior officials from Taiwan and covered areas such as entrepreneurial government; methodology of redesign and reinvention; procurement; management of public transportation organizations; municipal bonds as a competitive strategy; tools for project management.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement, Project Preparation and Management

Tanzania

Tailored Training for Tanzanian Delegation

Description: This was a special course for a small group of Tanzanians concerned with problems of the insurance industry. Keywords: Financial Sector Development and Reform

Tajikistan

Administrative Law Reform

Description: ILI provided administrative law reform advice to members of the Ministry of Justice and judges.

Keywords: Administrative Law

External Debt Management

Keywords: International Borrowing and Debt Management

The Gambia

Legislative Drafting Training

Description: ILI provided legislative drafting training to Gambian officials. Keywords: Legislative Drafting

The Philippines

Antimonopoly Training

Description: This seminar was designed to introduce staff members of the Philippine Energy Regulatory Board (ERB) to the problem of regulating a private utility in a natural monopoly position.

Keywords: Anti-competitive Business Practices, Utility Regulation

Turkmenistan

International Contracting

Description: This four-week course trained officials from Turkmenistan in the basics of international contracting for goods and services under procedures established by the World Bank, UNCITRAL, and other standards.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

Negotiating and Implementing Trade Agreements

Description: This training seminar covered topics that included the GATT and WTO trade agreements, with emphasis on the requirements for accession to the WTO, and an introduction to the details of international transactions in goods and services.

Keywords: International Trade

Uganda

Ugandan Legal Education/African Legal Initiative

Description: This two-year program established a training center in Kampala to train Ugandan officials in a wide range of subjects.

Keywords: Legal Education

Ukraine

Administrative Law Reform

Description: This program introduced twenty Ukrainian government officials and legal educators to U.S. Administrative Law. The group returned to Ukraine with recommendations for revising Ukraine’s administrative and civil service codes.

Keywords: Administrative Law

Antimonopoly Law

Description: This two-week course was designed to introduce officials of the Ukrainian Antimonopoly committee to the principles of antitrust and unfair trade law as practiced in the United States.

Keywords: Anti-competitive Business Practices

Antimonopoly Law II

Description: This two-week course introduced officials of the Ukrainian Antimonopoly committee to the principles of antitrust and unfair trade law as practiced in the United States.

Keywords: Anti-competitive Business Practices

Commercial Law Center

Description: The Commercial Law Center provided legislative strengthening and legal capacity building services to the Ukrainian government, academia and private sector. ILI provided course design assistance and faculty members for a wide range of training courses conducted in Kiev.

Keywords: Commercial Law

Commercial Law Drafting

Description: ILI delivered a seminar on legislative drafting principles for a group of eighteen experienced drafters from twelve government agencies. The sessions were intended to prepare the participants to undertake the drafting of new statutes and amendments as part of Ukraine’s efforts to reform its commercial legal framework.

Keywords: Commercial Law, Legislative Drafting

Environmental Policy and Regulation

Description: This two-week seminar was presented to environmental lawyers, local government officials, academics and senior advisors to Parliament. The seminar acquainted Ukrainian environmental professionals with U.S. experience and practice in environmental regulation.

Keywords: Environmental Policy and Regulation

Infrastructure Reform and Finance

Description: ILI reviewed and evaluated Ukrainian concession and public-private partnership laws. ILI evaluated proposed PPP legislation by USAID/Kiev’s Commercial Law Center Project.

Keywords: Private Participation in Infrastructure Development and Finance

Judicial System Reform

Description: Under this program, fifteen judges and legal professionals from Ukraine spent two weeks in Washington discussing reform of court administration procedures. Discussion focused on technology, case flow management, budgeting and personnel issues, and the relationships with the judiciary.

Keywords: Judicial Training and Court Administration Reform

Legislative Drafting

Description: This two-week seminar was designed and conducted by ILI for seventeen Ukrainian officials, including members of the Verknova Rada (Parliament) and Supreme Court. The program was designed to give the delegation a thorough understanding of legislative drafting and process as it is conducted at the federal level in the U.S.

Keywords: Legislative Drafting

Negotiating International Trade Agreements

Keywords: International Trade

Transportation Infrastructure to Support Trade

Description: This program consisted largely of meetings with U.S. Government officials as well as with companies working in international trade. Discussion focused on the role of sound infrastructure in supporting trade; measures to expedite goods through customs; and the partnership of government and private business.

Keywords: International Trade, Private Participation in Infrastructure Development and Finance

United States

Compliance with International Trade Agreements

Description: ILI was selected by the U.S. State Department to train several hundred Foreign Service Officers (FSOs), Foreign Service Nationals (FSNs), and officials from other U.S. agencies such as the Department of Commerce and USTR. This program was designed to provide a solid understanding of the WTO and other agreements.

Keywords: International Trade

Energy Legal and Regulatory Development Services

Description: ILI was a consortium member under a USAID initiative providing specialist training targeting Energy Legal and Regulatory Development Services.

Keywords: Utility Regulation

General Business Trade & Investment

Description: ILI was a member to a consortium under a USAID initiative that emphasized general business, trade and investment. ILI had special responsibilities for the areas of conference management and training in the areas of trade, WTO, procurement and investment.

Keywords: International Trade, Public Procurement / International Procurement, International Investment

Legal & Institutional Reform

Description: ILI was a consortium member under a USAID initiative and had special responsibilities in the areas of conference management and training Legal and Institutional Reform activities in developing and transitional economies.

Keywords: Legislative Process Development and Management

Privatization

Description: ILI was a member of a consortium under a USAID initiative with responsibilities for conference management and training in privatization and post-privatization in developing and transitional economies.

Keywords: Public Enterprise Reform and Privatization

Research

Critical Factors Necessary to Establishing a Viable Commercial Arbitration Regime – American Arbitration Association Description: ILI prepared research on the preconditions for the creation of viable commercial arbitration regimes in various countries. Keywords: Alternative Dispute Resolution

U.S. Department of Commerce Course on International Trade

Description: ILI was awarded a contract to design and present a three-day course on international trade issues for officials of the U.S. Foreign Commercial Service.

Keywords: International Trade

Uzbekistan

Institutional Strengthening of the State Committee for Demonopolization and Competition Development

Description: ILI implemented a project on institutional strengthening of the State Committee for Demonopolization and Competition Development (CDCD). ILI advised the CDCD on how to best identify and regulate the actions of large companies that pose a barrier to market entry and work against market forces.

Keywords: Anti-competitive Business Practices

Negotiating and Implementing Trade Agreements

Description: This two-week seminar covered topics including bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, GATT, NAFTA, import and export regulation, tariffs and GSP, free trade zones, market access issues, trade in goods and services, and intellectual property.

Keywords: International Trade

Study Tour for Uzbek and Kazakh Legal Educators

Description: This program introduced a group of legal educators from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to the American system of legal education.

Keywords: Legal Education

Uzbekistan Procurement Reform

Description: This project was an effort to draft a public procurement law, regulations, standard bidding documents and other materials necessary to create a procurement system in Uzbekistan. The technical assistance elements were followed by a training program.

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

Vietnam

Public Policy Training Program on National Debt Management in Vietnam

Description: ILI developed and delivered a five-day training program on National Debt Management for government officials in Vietnam. The audience came from the Ministry of Finance, the Central Bank, and the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Keywords: International Borrowing and Debt Management, Public Sector Fiscal Management

Training to Vietnamese Government Officials on International Economic Law

Description: ILI signed a three-year agreement with the government of Vietnam to provide officials with training on international economic law. Subjects covered included international trade, international arbitration, commercial law, and general training on the

U.S. legal system.

Keywords: International Trade, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Commercial Law

Organizations and Regions

APEC

APEC Workshops on International Investment Agreements and Investor-State Arbitration

Description: This two-part seminar was designed to strengthen the policymaking, negotiating, management, and implementing capacities of APEC member countries with respect to international investment agreements. Participants in this seminar also explored investor-state arbitration under these agreements.

Keywords: Alternative Dispute Resolution, International Investment

Central Asian Republics

Restructuring the Economy and Development of the Private Sector

Description: This four-week seminar dealt with policy issues and problems of implementing privatization programs. The seminar was given to two groups of officials from the Central Asian republics.

Keywords: Public Enterprise Reform and Privatization

COMESA

COMESA Technical Assistance in Procurement Reform

Description: ILI was engaged in a technical assistance procurement reform project for the benefit of all twenty member-states of Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA).

Keywords: Public Procurement / International Procurement

East and Central African Countries

Trade for African Development and Enterprise (TRADE) – East and Central Africa (ECA) Hub – Trade-Related Technical Assistance

Description: ILI provided technical assistance inputs in the areas of policy-level WTO- and AGOA-related trade capacity building. Much of the focus was on rules of origin and trade in services.

Keywords: International Trade