The Liberty Institute is a veteran think-tank and advocacy organization dedicated to advancement of natural law and liberty. We aim not only to analyze Georgian public policy but to change it. We provide not just an academic forum for critical discussions and debates but strive to act as a catalyst of reforms. Combining analysis, advocacy, and action, we generate path-breaking ideas on a wide spectrum of public policy issues.

The Liberty Institute was founded in 1996 by young, civic activists. Their main goal at that time was to defend free speech because independent media was under threat. Shevardnadze’s government had shut down critical media, Rustavi 2. Soon, they became one of the most influential think tanks in Georgia. Liberty Institute has actively supported the defense of human rights, including but not limited to religious and ethnic minorities by providing legal services to thousands of people. It has defended freedom of press and freedom of expression and actively promoted citizen participation. Liberty Institute has raised awareness on corruption and has conducted campaigns to spread liberal democratic values in Georgian society. Furthermore, it has actively fought for the reform of the judiciary, including the introduction of a jury system.

In 2003, together with other non-governmental organizations and civic activists Liberty Institute published the manifesto 'Kmara! (Enough!) - Ten Steps to Freedom', which aimed to change the country’s political system through extensive and all-encompassing reforms in all spheres.

The manifesto aimed to completely overhaul the soviet system, promote prosperity and create a favorable environment for investment, by instilling principles of free market economics, advancing private property rights, by fighting unnecessary bureaucracy that was the source of corruption and bribery, by liberalizing the tax code and by decentralizing an overly-centralized system,

Furthermore, the manifesto included a plan to implement a unified state policy for the restoration of the territorial integrity of Georgia and the withdrawal of Russian military from the territory of Georgia until 2007, a roadmap for joining Euro-Atlantic structures, an abolition of conscription in the army and a reform of Georgian Armed Forces together with the decentralization of law enforcement, an extensive reform of the Criminal Code as well as electoral law, full repayment of pension and salary debts until 2006, granting financial and administrative independence to educational institutions, the election of the boards of trustees and directors, the introduction of a scholarship system for financing education, the adoption of the law on freedom of speech and the press, and the transformation of state television and radio into public broadcasting.

In addition to various textbooks, research and journalistic investigations, the organization was publishing the journal 'Liberty'.

​​Founders of the Liberty Institute were key players in the Rose Revolution in 2003 and many of them became MPs and held high-level positions in government. USAID, in its Dekleptification Guide has written that 'the long-cultivated ideological cohesiveness of this core group of reformers was essential for the new government to hit the ground running when the window opened in Georgia.' In 2019, in the midst of a political crisis, the Liberty Institute returned with a new leadership.

In 2019, in the midst of a political crisis, the Liberty Institute returned with a new leadership The Current board members of Liberty Institute include: Beka Mindiashvili, Giorgi Bedineishvili, Giorgi Meladze, Vakhtang Lejava, Tamar Chergoleishvili, Konstantine Vardzelashvili, Nino Gogiberidze, Ketevan Mskhiladze and the head of the board, Levan Ramishvili.

The executive director of the organization is Salome Khvadagiani.