调解与法制分别与“自下而上的正义”和“自上而下的正义”相对应,在理论与制度设计上必然呈悖反现象。然而,二者均以“正义”为终极目标,因而在“和而不同”之中又表现出融通的迹象,即调解的法制化与法制化中的优先调解。现代社会中调解与法制的关系,是以各守其度为前提的,既不能一味强调差异,也不能一味强调同一,正所谓“悖而不离”。 Mediation and the rule of law correspond to “justice from the bottom up ” and “justice from the top ”, which inevitably leads to contradictions in the design of theory and system. However, both of them have the ultimate goal of “justice ”, and thus show signs of merging in “harmony but differentness”, namely, the legalization of mediation and the priority mediation in legalization. The relationship between conciliation and the rule of law in modern society is based on the premise of keeping each one’s degree. We can neither emphasize differences nor emphasize one thing at a time.