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Cohort-based training for law firms and in-house teams on capacity building, AI integration, and AI governance.
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An Independent Pakistani Institute For Legal Training, Technology Advisory, And Investment Intelligence.
CLPS Trains Legal Practitioners, Advises Firms On Technology Governance, And Runs CEDI, The Centre For Economic Security, Disputes And Investment, As Its Research And Convening Arm.
Our mission
A Place To Learn, To Advise, And To Convene: Building Capacity Where Law, Economics And Technology Meet.
CLPS exists to raise the standard of legal practice in Pakistan: equipping practitioners for an AI-shaped profession, guiding institutions through technology governance, and producing regulatory intelligence the market can act on.
Institute pillars
Three Ways CLPS Works With The Profession.
Advisory
Legal-technology deployment strategy, AI-governance policy drafting, and change-management support for firm-wide tool rollout.
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A specialist intelligence and convening platform at the intersection of investment, economic and national security, and the disputes that arise between them.
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CEDI's flagship: a one-day, invitation-only forum in Islamabad capped at 70, under strict Chatham House Rule, spanning CEDI's three focus areas.
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Independent, Rigorous, And Built For Practice.
CLPS is not a think tank at a distance from the work. Everything it produces, from a CPD cohort to a working paper, is designed to change how deals are structured, disputes resolved, and compliance programmes built in the real market.
Based in Islamabad and Karachi, the institute convenes the people who actually implement the rules: regulators, transactional counsel, banks and corporates.
CLPS Presents CEDI
Centre For Economic Security, Disputes And Investment
Cross-border investment increasingly sits at the intersection of commercial interests, state regulation, and national security. CEDI is an independent, non-partisan intelligence and convening platform examining the risks, disputes, and legal frameworks that emerge at that intersection, bringing regulators, corporates, banks, and senior counsel into the same closed-door room.
Focus Areas
- 01Investment Disputes & Arbitration: Investor-State dispute settlement, treaty arbitration, and enforcement, where investment meets state power.
- 02Economic & National Security: Sanctions, screening, and statecraft: how global rules reach Pakistani deals, and where that intervention turns into a dispute.
- 03Strategic Investment & Investment Risk: Structuring capital into sensitive sectors, and managing the regulatory, screening, and dispute risk that follows it in.
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CLPS Advisory2 April 2026
A Practical AI Governance Checklist for In-House Legal Teams
Practical guidance summarising the core policy, tooling-vetting, and change-management steps in-house legal teams should take before rolling out generative AI tools firm-wide.
CLPS Advisory
CEDI · Economic Security11 March 2026
The SAFE Regulation and the Defense Trap: Why Europe's Localization Strategy Pushes Middle Powers Closer to Beijing
As Europe accelerates its rearmament agenda, the Security Action for Europe (SAFE) Regulation has emerged as the continent's most ambitious defence financing instrument — mobilising up to €150 billion in subsidized loans for joint military procurement. Designed to insulate European defence supply chains and build strategic autonomy, SAFE imposes strict localization requirements: no more than 35 percent of component costs may originate from outside the EU, the EEA/EFTA countries, and Ukraine. While analytically sound as an industrial policy, this threshold inadvertently functions as a geopolitical exclusion mechanism. This post argues that by locking out rising Middle Powers — particularly NATO ally Turkey and emerging defence producer Pakistan — from Europe's lucrative procurement market, SAFE risks accelerating the very strategic hedging it seeks to prevent. Rather than drawing these nations closer to Western institutional frameworks, the regulation's "Buy European" logic may instead deepen their dependence on Chinese technology, capital, and supply chains. In a world of poly-aligned Middle Powers that respond to material incentives rather than normative appeals, Brussels' fortress mentality may prove its own undoing.
Murtaza Mustansir
CEDI · Investment10 February 2026
SIFC and the New FDI Architecture: What Cross-Border Counsel Need to Track in 2026
How the Special Investment Facilitation Council's evolving mandate is reshaping deal timelines, sectoral screening, and approval sequencing for inbound Gulf- and China-linked transactions.
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