证据学是一门法学吗——以研究对象为中心的省察

Is the Science of Evidence Law a Science of Law——Review centered with research subjects

通过对十年来我国证据法学研究在知识的增长方面进行量化的考察,结果显示:一方面,我国证据法学研究大部分仍然游离于法学与自然科学之间,这种研究既不能增长自然科学方面的知识,也无法增长法学方面的知识;另一方面,在有可能增长法学知识的领域,证据法学却又依附于法学的其他门类,从而丧失了自身独立存在的价值。方法论训练的缺乏及学术研究能力的有限,是造成这些现象的根本原因。因此,为使证据法学成为一门独立的法学学科,必须加强研究者的方法论训练,从而提高该学科在增进法学知识方面做出贡献的能力,并朝着建立统一的证据法学理论的方向努力。

Through ten years' quantity review with respect to the growth of knowledge in the science of evidence law, the result is that on the one hand, most of research on the science of evidence law in China has been in the position between the science of law and natural science. Such research can enrich neither the knowledge of natural science nor the knowledge of law. On the other hand, in the field of possible increasing the knowledge of law, the science of evidence law, however, attached to other branches of law and therefore lost its own value to exist independently. Being lack of methodology training and limited research ability are the reasons for the existence of the phenomenon. Therefore, in order to make the science of evidence law an independent legal subject, researchers must get the training on methodologies to make the subject contribute to the legal knowledge and strive to establish a unified theory of evidence law.