一、公益诉讼的起源公益诉讼起源于罗马法,是相对于私益诉讼而言的,它又被称为公众利益诉讼、民众诉讼、罚金诉讼等。意大利罗马法学家彼得罗彭梵得指出,“人们称那些为维护公共利益而设置的罚金诉讼为民众 First, the origin of public interest litigation Public interest litigation originated in the Roman law, is relative to private litigation, it is also known as public interest litigation, public litigation, fines litigation. The Italian Roman jurist Peter Rothenberg pointed out that ”people claim that those who set the fines for the public interest litigation for the people