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Symposium Issue: Critical Race Theory and Empirical Methods Empirical Methods and Critical Race Theory: A Discourse on Possibilities for a Hybrid Methodology by Mario L. Barnes Public Health Critical Race Praxis: An Introduction, an Intervention, and Three Points for Consideration by Chandra L. Ford Racial Horizons and Empirical Landscapes in the Post-ACA World by Shaun Ossei-Owusu Black Community Control over Police by M Adams & Max Rameau Black Lives Matter and Respectability Politics in Local News Accounts of Officer-Involved Civilian Deaths: An Early Empirical Assessment by Osagie K. Obasogie & Zachary Newman Microclimates of Racial Meaning: Historical Racial Violence and Environmental Impacts by Geoff Ward Adjudicating Risk: AIDS, Crime, and Culpability by Aziza Ahmed Institutionalizing Essentialism: Mechanisms of Intersectional Subordination Within the LGBT Movement by Gwendolyn M. Leachman

Commentary Disparaging the Supreme Court, Part II: Questioning Institutional Legitimacy by Brian Christopher Jones Three Wrongs Do Not Make a Right: Federal Sovereign Immunity, the Feres Doctrine, and the Denial of Claims Brought by Military Mothers and Their Children for Injuries Sustained Pre-birth by Tara Willke Articles Horizontal Innovation and Interface Patents by Bernard Chao Disfavored Treatment of Third-Party Guilt Evidence by David S. Schwartz & Chelsey B. Metcalf Comment You Get What You Pay For: Why Wisconsin Should Adopt Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Stacking Waivers by Alyssa L. Kempke

Address All in the Family: A Legacy of Public Service and Engagement— Edward and Thomas Fairchild by R. Nils Olsen, Jr. Articles Religious Discrimination Based on Employer Misperception by Dallan F. Flake The New Lochner by Amanda Shanor Comment Go Directly to Jail, Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200: Improving Wisconsin’s Pretrial Release Statute by Tiffany Woelfel

Table of Contents Articles Bystander Interventions By Sarah L. Swan Bystander intervention strategies are emerging as a popular proposed solution to complex social problems like bullying in schools and online, sexual misconduct on college campuses, and harassment in the workplace. As the name suggests, bystander intervention initiatives encourage individuals who witness such harms to adopt …

Table of Contents Articles Who’s Really Sentenced to Life Without Parole?: Searching for “Ugly Disproportionalities” in the American Criminal Justice System By Craig S. Lerner Critics argue that the American criminal justice system is rife with “ugly disproportionalities” and “brutal penalties on the undeserving.” One particularly brutal punishment is the sentence of life without the …

Table of Contents In Memoriam Tributes to Robert W. Kastenmeier Robert W. Kastenmeier died on March 20, 2015, at the age of ninety-one. After serving in the Army in World War II, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1952. He practiced law in Watertown, Wisconsin and served as a justice of …

Articles Detrimental Reliance on IRS Guidance By Emily Cauble The IRS issues different types of guidance to taxpayers, and the extent to which taxpayers can rely on IRS guidance depends on the form in which it was offered. For instance, taxpayers generally cannot rely on oral advice provided over the phone but can rely on …

Articles The Hidden Daubert Factor: How Judges Use Error Rates in Assessing Scientific Evidence By John B. Meixner & Shari Seidman Diamond In Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, the United States Supreme Court provided a framework under which trial judges must assess the evidentiary reliability of expert scientific evidence. One factor of the Daubert test, …