In the beginning of 90th of XX century the Russian society became aware of not only the deficit of commodity output but also a deficit of law. The strive for a just, based on law, social order became activated in 1992-1993, i.e. in the period of development of the new Constitution of the Russian Federation. Just during that period the need for establishing the institutions to be able professionally and with participation of the civil society and international community to introduce the Russian population and professionals with analysis of constitutional processes both in Russia and in other post-communist countries was of paramount importance. The work of Moscow Public Scientific Foundation (MPSF)’ Center for Constitutional research (CCR) was highly called for and appreciated, nevertheless, its focus on separate research activities while transforming to work on the principles of a comprehensive “project oriented” activity needed serious corrections. The main strategic objective became to transform the CCR into independent and powerful enough element of the Russian system of the constitutionalism development and facilitation of liberal/democratic forms of political processes in Russia.

The establishment of Institute of law and public policy (24 July, 2000) became the important stage on the way to meet the latter objective and create the so called “intellectual center” that would unite the best Russian and foreign constitutionalists, professionals in the area of public law as well as experts in the area of administrative, legal and court reforms.