对行政诉讼调解制度的冷思考

行政诉讼调解制度对当下中国的行政诉讼法发展有着不可忽视的消极作用，它将行政诉讼的目的定位为解决纠纷，淡化了行政诉讼保护相对人合法权益的目的，妨碍了行政诉讼独特的宪政功能的发挥，并导致了行政法规则在诉讼中的模糊化，使行政诉讼所承担的对行政法的告示、指引、预测、教育等作用无从发挥，行政违法的责任也随之淡化。而学界肯定行政诉讼调解制度的理由如行政裁量权的存在、中国无讼厌讼传统、外国存在相关制度等，均无法成立。由此，中国在当下不应建立行政诉讼调解制度。

Rational Thinking about Administrative Litigation Mediation System

It cannot be ignored that administrative litigation mediation system has its negative effects on the development of China’ s present administrative litigation law .T he purpose of the administrative litigation is positioned as dispute resolution ,w hich plays dow n the purpose of its protecting people’s legal rights and interests ,gets in the way of its unique constitutional func-tion ,leads to fuzzy rules of administrative law ,makes it impossible for administrative litigation to exercise such functions as announcement ,guidance ,prediction and education ,and weakens the lia-bility of illegal administration .T he academic reasons for administrative litigation mediation sys-tem are not convincing such as the existence of administrative discretion ,Chinese tradition of no suits and disgusting suits and the related systems in the foreign countries .T herefore ,at the pres-ent stage administrative litigation mediation system should not be established in China .