ABSTRACT
The aim of this paper is to describe Indonesian law studies that should prepare to go beyond its old tradition toward quickly growing knowledge and science, in line with fast-changing society. Future knowledge will be multi-, inter-, and cross-disciplinary in character, as a result of collaboration among scholars of different fields who focus on certain issues (including law) and who seek to meet society’s needs through academic novelty. Legal science is obliged to explain injustice among disadvantaged groups in society. Legal research should be open to all possibilities for enrichment in its methodology, with methods transplanted from other social sciences, humanity studies, even natural sciences. Legal science will not lose its paradigmatic character when its research uses a combination of a doctrinal approach and fieldwork with various methods. Socio-legal research whose home is at faculties of law offers such enrichment to legal science.
