Towards a science of evidence from the new evidence scholarship
Nanning Zhang · Journal of Central South University(Social Science) · 2009
In the middle part of the twentieth century,research on evidence began to transform from a field concerned with the articulation of rules to a field concerned with the process of proof.This wave resulted in the establishment of the New Evidence Scholarship.This new species of evidence scholarship had grown substantially and became a major international movement by the mid-1980 s,but it faced many challenges.It showed that a very broader view of the new evidence scholarship should be established.The distinctions between the narrow new evidence scholarship and the broad one embodied not only on the different meaning of the word New, but also the implication of scholarship. The broad new evidence scholarship incarnated the interdisciplinary trend of evidence scholarship and underlined its scientific nature.The central theme of this paper is,to the effect that,the development of the broad new evidence scholarship ultimately leads to the occurrence of a science of evidence which is comprehensive in nature.