Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2019
Abstract
“Engineering Rules” is a clever triple entendre, evoking rules (the industrial standards that are its concern), the emergence of engineering (the profession largely responsible for their creation) and the consensus processes developed over time (the engineering) by which they have been created. The book is an extraordinarily detailed history of the movement from national to international standards creation and use, a necessary product of the industrial age and the emergence of a global economy. It introduces as its heroes, in remarkably intimate accounts of their careers, a series of men of rectitude and accomplishment who selflessly built the practice. The story told is of processes dedicated to finding consensus amongst experts who are professionals first and, if also representatives of particular interests, participating in a process designed to assure the participation of all stakeholders. The resemblance to American notice-and-comment rulemaking processes is strong, and between the professional commitments of its participants and the stakeholder representation principles often observed, one can think the reasonableness and integrity of outcomes generally sound.
Disciplines
Administrative Law | Law | Public Administration
Recommended Citation
Peter L. Strauss,
Engineering Rules,
Yale J. on Reg. Notice & Comment, October 7, 2019
(2019).
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