A group of people who have a background in judicial and managership work founded the Iranian Law & Legal Research Institute in 2010 under Judiciary Vice President for Education and Research for Judiciary, focusing on the collection and management of peripheral legal knowledge. The Development Council of the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology received the approval in principle in 2015 and the approval for converting it to the Allameh Legal Encyclopedia Research Institute in 2019. After the establishment and consolidation period of the institute passed, its development period began in 2020.[1] The center was authorized to update from a research center to a research institute by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.