The main aims of the Institute are to contribute: to the formation of the scientific basis for the reform of the Lithuanian law and legal system as well as its separate elements based on the national experience and the advantages of the European Law development; to contribute to the safeguarding of human rights and freedoms by elaborating national scientific studies as well as applied scientific researches in the field of law and legal system; to the formation of favorable conditions for business by means of legal measures. The main areas of research of the Law Institute are as follows: public law (paying most attention to the problems of constitutional law and criminal justice) and criminology (paying most attention to the problems of the rights of children and youth).