STRATEGIC SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
The institute was founded in 1991, since then, the institute has been conducting long-term and applied scientific development research, working in the areas of human rights, legal system and criminal policy improvement.
The institute's mission is to carry out innovative research on legal thought and social practice, the purpose of which is to create and collect knowledge of law and related sciences, to support the maturity of Lithuanian law.
Activities of the Law Institute:
- Fundamental cientific research (long-term institutional R&D programs)
- Legal, criminological, anti-corruption expertise of legal acts and their drafts
- Applied scientific research (commissioned, selective)
- Expert activity (methodological, methodical assistance to specific entities, research and study institutions)
- Scientific events (scientific conferences, seminars, trainings)
2022 Yearbook of the Law Institute at the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences (in lithuanian).
2021 Yearbook of the Law Institute at the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences (in lithuanian).
Research directions:
Reform of the legal system:
- Crime, its prevention and forecasts
- Victimology studies
- Geopolitical threats and cyber security
- Violent crime analysis
- Financial and economic crimes (smuggling), their analysis
- Juvenile delinquency
- Sentencing system
- Restorative justice
Work and family, social, health and environmental protection:
- Family policy
- Immigration and emigration
- Model of labor and social security
- Healthy and safe environment research
Criminal policy and criminology:
- Crime, its prevention and forecasts
- Victimology studies
- Geopolitical threats and cyber security
- Violent crime analysis
- Financial and economic crimes (smuggling), their analysis
- Juvenile delinquency
- Sentencing system