It was initially founded as the
Institute of Soviet Construction at the Communist Academy. Now the center of Russian scientific legal training and consultative support for State institutions, the ISL also coordinates legal research work, trains legal science staff, and collaborates with international legal groups. By Edict of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 16.04.75, the ISL was awarded the Labor Red Banner Order for its services in the development of legal sciences and the training of a scientific staff of lawyers. A later edict of the President of Russian Federation of 3.12.94 (No. 2174) entrusted the ISL with the Analytical Center of Legal Policy of the President of the Russian Federation.
Prior Designations In its history, the ISL has undergone several transformations. Previously, it has been called: • Institute of Soviet Development (Institut Sovetskogo Stroitelstva - ISS) (1925–1930) • Institute of Soviet Law of the Russian Association of scientific institutes of the social sciences (1923–1930) • Institute of Soviet Development and Law (Institut Sovetskogo Stroitelstva i Prava) (1930–1936) • Institute of State Law of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (Institut Gosudarstvenogo Prava AN SSSR) (1936–1938) • Institute of Law of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (Institut Prava AN SSSR) (1938–1960) • Institute of State and Law of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (Institut Gosudarstva i Prava AN SSSR) (1960–1991) • Current form: Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the 1950s, the ISL carried the honorary name of
Andrey Vyshinsky.
Location The ISL is located on
ulitsa Znamenka 10, Moscow (119841), formerly ulitsa Frunze. ==Scope of research==