In Bad Law, the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution brings his trademark legal acumen and passionate snark to a brilliant takedown of 10 of what he considers the most egregiously awful laws on the books today. These are pieces of legislation that are making life worse rather than better for Americans, and that, he argues with trenchant wit and biting humor, should be repealed completely.

On topics ranging from abortion and immigration to voting rights and religious freedom, we have chosen rules to live by that do not reflect the will of most of the people. With respect to our decision to make a law that effectively grants immunity to gun manufacturers, for example, Elie Mystal writes, “We live in the most violent, wealthy country on earth not in spite of the law; we live in a first-person-shooter video game because of the law.”

Mystal is the Nation’s legal analyst and justice correspondent, as well as legal editor of the More Perfect podcast for Radiolab. He is an Alfred Knobler Fellow at Type Media Center and a frequent guest on MSNBC and SiriusXM. He lives in New York. Mystal will be in conversation with Mark Joseph Stern, a senior writer covering courts and the law for Slate and a regular MSNBC contributor.

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