Research in law and unrelated subjects cannot be said to have reached any considerable scale until the establishment of the Faculty of Law at the University of Malaya in 1972. Until then, the only legal research being conducted was within the confines of private legal firms and government departments. Research was necessarily restricted to an ad hoc approach of instant necessity and for immediate utilisation. Now, after more than six years, the situation has changed little except that most of the new institutions and bodies concerned have individually expanded their research activities. Any coordination of research works in law remains within the bounds of sporadic cooperative efforts between individual researchers.