It was named for founding benefactors Elaine Schuster and Gerald Schuster.
The institute's major projects were:
the Political & Social Justice Project
the Justice Brandeis Innocence Project
the Gender & Justice Project.
The Schuster Institute closed at the end of 2018 due to financial considerations.
=== Steinhardt Social Research Institute ===
The Steinhardt Social Research Institute was created in 2005 from a gift from Michael Steinhardt as a forum to collect, analyze, and disseminate data about the Jewish community and about religion and ethnicity in the United States. The first mission of SSRI was to interpret the inherent problems with the National Jewish Population Survey of 2000 (NJPS). SSRI has done a Jewish Population Survey of the Greater Boston area, the results of which were released on November 9, 2006.
The Institute collects and organizes existing socio-demographic data from private, communal, and government sources and will conduct local and national studies of the character of American Jewry …
