民族法学作为法学的一个专门的学科,是本世纪80年代在我国首先形成和发展起来的。这门学科是适应我国平等、团结、互助的社会主义民族关系的形成和发展的需要而出现的。如何把握我国民族法制发展的历史传承关系,如何估量各个不同时期民族法学研究的特点,以及展望中国民族法学的发展趋势,是发展民族法学这一学科的主要依据。 As a special subject of law science, ethnics law was first formed and developed in our country in the 1980s. This discipline emerged in response to the formation and development of the socialist ethnic relations of equality, unity and mutual assistance in our country. How to grasp the historical inheritance relations in the development of our national legal system and how to evaluate the characteristics of ethnic jurisprudence research in different periods and to look forward to the development trend of Chinese national jurisprudence are the main bases for the development of this discipline.