uL stration laws dealing with state administration in Albania METHODOLOGY To reach the objectives of this paper, i.e., the identifying of lustration laws dealing with state administration in Albania and finding whether they had achieved or not the purposes for which they were brought into existence; the ranking of these laws - achieved their purposes, partially achieved their purposes, and not achieved their purposes; and finding out reasons why these lustration laws achieved their purposes, partially achieved their purposes, or, did not achieved their purposes, we have operated with a combination of classical legal research methods, i.e., the interpretation of legal acts and analysis of archival documents. Thus, firstly, by using as data collection technique secondary data coming from a process of literature review, parliamentary reports, archives of the implementers authorities established under the lustration laws, and, by using as data analysis technique the 3 approaches of textual interpretation - as a legal method of finding the meaning of meaning - intentio auctoris, authorial intention, corresponds to what the author intended, had in mind, to say; intentio operis describes what the text actually says; and intentio lectoris, what the text conveys to the reader, what the reader takes it to mean30 and content analysis - to analyze documents31, we have identified only lustration laws dealt with the state administration in Albania, determined their real intended purposes, and we have concluded if they achieved their purposes. After we have ranked them in achieved their purposes, partially achieved their purposes, and not achieved their purposes. Secondly, by using as data collection technique secondary data coming from parliamentary reports, archives of the implementers authorities established under these laws and other relevant institutions, i.e., Parliament of Albania, Commission of Verifying Public Figures or the so-called Bezhani Commission, Mezini Commission, Files Authority, Department of Public Administration, and Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, by using as data analysis the content analysis-to analyze documents, we have find out reasons why these lustration laws achieved their purposes, partially achieved their purposes, or not achieved their purposes. This methodology is also supported by our research question, namely, why these lustration laws dealing with the state administration in Albania did not achieve their purposes? also by our hypothesis, we assume that because of how these lustration laws were designed and implemented, they did not achieve their purposes. FINDINGS The identifying of lustration laws dealing with the state administration in Albania and finding whether they had achieved or not the purposes for which they were brought into existence; the ranking of these laws in achieved their purposes, partially achieved their purposes, and not achieved their purposes By using the above-mentioned methodology, we have reached the conclusion lustration laws dealing also with the purifying of state administration in Albania are as below listed: law nr. 8043, dated 30 November 1995, “On the control of the moral figure of officials and other persons connected with the protection of the democratic state”; law nr. 10034, dated 22.12.2008 “On the purity of the image of high officials of the public administration and the appointees”; 30. Alfred Phillips, Lawyers’ language How and why legal language is different, (Routledge Press, 2003). 31. Gerald. J Miller and Kaifeng Yang, The Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration, (CRC Press-Taylor and Francis Group, 2008). 83