When law is viewed as an effective instrument of socio-economic transformation, it becomes necessary to see it (law) in the light of social facts and values. It also needs to be studied and analyzed in terms of its actual working and consequences and not as it stands in the book. Obviously, doctrinal legal research, in this context, becomes inadequate and inapt. Further, contemporary social-goal-oriented law requires pre-legislative study to know and appreciate the extra-legal factors that have played significant role, positive or negative, in shaping the legal rule or doctrine in the present form. Doctrinal legal research, by its nature, does not bring such pre-legislative issues in its ambit. It is also not fully equipped for such a study.