“评法批儒”运动是当代中国学术发展史上的一场灾难。因具体参与注释工作的大多是学者而非政客，使运动产生了一些学术成果，一定程度上传递了学术的薪火：一些青年借助这个荒唐的契机，接受了学术基本功的训练，为此后走上学术研究之路、成长为相关领域的专家打下了一定基础，提供了可能；部分古籍注释作品为相关领域的研究做出了一定的贡献，如《商君书注译》等；部分研究课题借助这一荒谬的契机开启，并在运动结束后得到深化，如朱维铮、姜义华等人的章太炎研究等。“评法批儒”运动中的古籍整理与地下文献的出土引发的研究热潮及二十四史的点校工作一起，作为七十年代的三件大事，均为八九十年代古典学术的起步做了准备工作。学术史的相关梳理并不是也不能为“评法批儒”运动翻案。尽管在运动中仍有学术的薪火相传，但其中普遍存在的病态现象均需在激进政治退场后进行全面消毒、清理和反思，因运动机缘成长起来的学术青年，也要彻底进行思想的更新与转变。

The Movement of Commenting on Legalism and Criticizing Confucianism is a disaster in the history of contemporary academic development. Because most of the scholars who participated in the annotation work were scholars rather than politicians, some academic achievements were also produced in the disaster, which transmitted the academic fuel to a certain extent: some young people took advantage of this absurd opportunity to receive the training of basic academic skills. which laid a certain foundation and made it possible for them to embark on the road of academic research and grow into experts in related fields; the publication of annotated books of some ancient books has made a certain contribution to the development of research in related fields, such as Annotation and Translation of the Book of Lord Shang; some research topics were opened under this absurd opportunity and continued to deepen after the movement, such as the Research on Zhang Taiyan by Zhu Weizheng, Jiang Yihua and so on. Together with the research upsurge triggered by the excavation of underground documents and the collation of the Twenty-Four Histories, collation of ancient books in the movement of “evaluating the law and criticizing Confucianism” as three major events in the 1970s prepared for the start of classical learning in the 1980s and 1990s. The relevant combing of academic history cannot overturn the evaluation of the Movement. Although there are still academic firewood handed down from generation to generation in the movement, the common pathological phenomena need to be fully disinfected, cleaned up and reflected after the exit of radical politics. The academic youth who grow up due to the opportunity of the movement should also thoroughly renew and change their ideas.