The establishment of the Institute for Legal and Social Research at the Faculty of Law is one of the significant projects that the management is working on in cooperation with teachers and associates. The preparation of the Elaborate on the socio-economic justification of the establishment of the Institute has been completed, and the procedural completion of the establishment is to come.

As a center of scientific research work in the field of legal and related social sciences, the Institute for Legal and Social Research of the Faculty of Law of the University "Džemal Bijedić" in Mostar will represent the base and basic organizational form of experiential legal and other related research of teachers and associates of the Faculty. The basic mission of the Institute is organized participation in scientific and research activities in the field of legal and related social sciences while advocating for the improvement of the rule of law, democratic values and human rights.

Within the framework of their activities, the researchers of the Institute will engage in research in several scientific disciplines, in all areas of law, including theoretical-legal, positive-legal, historical-legal and economic-legal disciplines that require an interdisciplinary approach and close cooperation with the environment that implies public and the private sector. In this sense, the role of the Institute will be significant not only for the Faculty, but also for the University, the city of Mostar, the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, as well as the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The projects that the Institute will implement will have academic and scientific importance, but also practical value in terms of dealing with current legal problems, and in the broader context of harmonizing the legal system of BiH with European law and trends of Europeanization and globalization in general.

Apart from the specific research results that the Institute will achieve through its work, one of its main goals is certainly to nurture the legal values of the rule of law, justice and the idea of fairness. These values represent the foundation of every scientific and academic work, and as such are an essential component of education at all levels.

The main activity of the Institute is scientific research work in the field of theoretical-legal, positive-legal, historical-legal and economic-legal sciences, which include comparative-legal and international dimensions. Other related sciences, without which scientific dealing with a certain problem is impossible, will also have their place in the work of the Institute.

All departments of the Faculty will be involved in the work of the Institute, through the process of making project proposals and their implementation, publishing scientific and professional works, and other types of scientific work.

The Institute supports and affirms the core activity of the Faculty of Law through internal organizational departments: