Description: The objective of the symposium was to bring together two very different paradigms—the legal and social scientific—in an effort to enhance each paradigm’s own understanding of prosecutorial and judicial discretion under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. The legal and sociolegal consequences of the way the Federal Sentencing Guidelines are structured not only should be assessed in terms of the goals of uniformity, proportionality, and truth-in-sentencing as expressed in the law, but also in terms of constitutional issues of due process. It was hoped that the legal and sociolegal studies included in this issue would stimulate future research that bridges the gap between the two paradigms in formulating questions and testing hypotheses relevant to case processing and sentencing under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. The papers presented at the symposium were published in the January 2002 edition of the Iowa Law Review.