The Faculty of Law and Social Sciences was created in 2019 as a result of reorganization at the university. The faculty is a merge of the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.

Today, the faculty operates five BA educational programmes: Law, International Relations, Europe Studies, Phycology and Public Administration. Besides, the following three MA educational programmes function within the faculty: Public Law, Criminal Law and Clinical Phycology. New MA educational programmes and educational programmes instructed in English are being elaborated too.

The goal of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences is to prepare highly qualified specialists equipped with the relevant theoretical knowledge and practical skills that will enable them to be competitive on the local as well as the international markets. The students of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences are served by the Law Clinic, Moot Court, Criminalistics Laboratory, Psychology Clinics, Centre of Social Research, Centre of European Research and Centre of Research of Public Management Problems. The existing laboratories contribute to fruitful utilization of the theoretical knowledge and effective management of the study process.

The students selected through the concurs do their internship in the Law Clinic where future lawyers gain professional skills, carry out lawyer’s job and provide active support to the citizens in settling various legal problems or preparation of legal documents. 

In the Clinics of Psychology BSU psychologists, together with the students of the educational programme of psychology, provide psycho-social support to the children, young people and their family members, people with special needs and SEN children subject to violence or those under the risk. Specially equipped rooms for individual or team therapy for the adults are being operated on the basis of the clinic.

The Faculty of Law and Social Sciences unifies three departments: Department of Law, Department of Public and Political Sciences, Department of Social Sciences. 

The Department of Law was established in 2006 on the basis of the Constitutional Law, International Law, Criminal Law and Civil Law departments. In 2011, based on the Resolution of the Education Quality National Centre Accreditation Board, the BSU BA educational programme of Law, and in 2012 MA educational programmes were announced  to have the  state accreditation process gone through.  The department has 14 academic personnel: 2 professors, 5 associate professors and 7 assistant professors. The department also cooperates with the invited teachers and the experts.  

The Department of Social Sciences is a successor of the Department of the Pedagogics-Psychology in the direction of Psychology being operated on the basis of Batumi Teaching Institute founded in 1935. In 2006 the Department of Pedagogics-psychology was awarded the medal of anniversary of Dimitri Uznadze to mark the long fruitful work of the direction of Psychology at BSU. The Department implements BA and MA educational programmes of Psychology. The Department of Social Sciences has 7 academic staff: 1 professor, 3 associate professors, 1 assistant-professor and 2 assistants.

In 2015, as a result of reorganization of the faculty, the Department of Social Sciences was split followed up with establishment of the Department of Public and Political Sciences which operates two BA programmes: International Relations and European Studies. The Department has 9 academic staff: 6 associate professors and 3 assistant professors.

The faculty has a close cooperation with the “Karl Francis University” of Graz, Austria, “Mykolas Romeris University” in Lithuania, Kyiv University of Law of National Academy of Science, Yeditepe University of Istanbul in Turkey, “Humanities and Law University” in Astana, Kazakhstan, “University of Tartu” in Estonia, Ternopil University in Ukraine, etc.; The faculty has signed the memorandum of understanding with around 30 state and private organizations.