2008年4月3日－5日，我校副校长兼证据科学教育部重点实验室主任张保生教授与常林教授和王进喜教授，作为特邀嘉宾出席了美国第八届法庭科学与法律研讨会，张保生教授和常林教授联名向会议提交了《证据科学研究的兴起：法庭科学与证据法学在中国的发展》论文。3月4日中午，张保生教授就该论文作了45分钟大会英文演讲，演讲结束后，他和常林教授一起回答了与会代表的提问。张保生教授在演讲中强调指出，证据科学研究在中国的兴起，走的是一条与西方不同的路子。它并非以一种纯粹理论研究的形式出现，而是具有理论与实践紧密结合的特点。2005年12月，当人们还在就证据科学的概念争论不休时，中国政法大学证据科学教育部重点实验室宣告成立，它注重证据科学的实践探索，把证据法学和法庭科学两支研究队伍集合在一起，改变了二者研究彼此分离的局面，体现了自然科学与社会科学研究的统一、法庭科学与证据法学的整合以及科研、教学和社会服务于一体，因此可以称为证据科学的“实践学派”。

    据悉，出席这次研讨会的有来自美国各州的100多名代表，中国代表团是本次会议邀请的惟一外国代表团，因而是我校证据科学教育部重点实验室向全美法庭科学界的一次集体亮相。会议期间，代表团成员还与美国著名法庭科学家和法学家Cyril H.Wecht教授、James E.Starrs教授、Michael E.Rieders博士和李昌钰博士等分别进行了交流。研讨会后，代表团顺访了匹兹堡市法庭科学实验室、费城NMS独立实验室、马里兰州法医局、杜肯大学法学院、Arcadia大学和西北大学法学院。代表团同杜肯大学法学院和Arcadia大学就法庭科学硕士项目的合作前景进行了探讨，同西北大学法学院的我校长江学者艾伦教授就《人民法院统一证据规定（司法解释建议稿）》英文版翻译事项进行了深入讨论。

Vice President Baosheng Zhang and the Delegation Attended the 8^th Annual Forensic Science and Law Conference in U.S. and Delivered a Speech

   From April 3 to 5, 2008, vice president and director of the Key Laboratory of Evidence Science (KLES) Baosheng Zhang，and the professor Lin Chang, professor Jinxi Wang attended the 8^th Annual Forensic Science and Law Conference in U.S. and delivered a speech on “The Emergence of Evidence Science Studies: the Experience of Forensic Science and Evidence Law in China” in the conference”.Having reviewed that the Evidence law studies has taken up an interdisciplinary trend and the study of evidence as a multi-disciplinary subject by Professor Twining and the systematic description of the concept "evidence science" by Professor Schum, then, Professor Zhang emphasizes that the research on evidence science in China has developed in a different way from that in the West. In December 2005, when the concept of evidence science was still being hotly debated, the establish of the Key Laboratory of Evidence Science (KLES)，Ministry of Education (MoE), China has changed from being separation of evidence law and forensic science to being integration in the KLES. The KLES is known as the “Practical movement” in evidence science, it involves more in practice, not only integrate research, teaching and public service, but also takes the approach in seeking breakthroughs on the basis of combined study of forensic science and evidence law. It is integration of the academic studies between natural science and social science, KLES consists of 30 forensic scientists and 10 professors in evidence law. It was said that China delegation was the only foreign delegation attended this conference.