{"product_id":"bad-law-by-elie-mystal-9781620978580","title":"Bad Law","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBad Law\u003c\/i\u003e, a New York Times bestseller by Elie Mystal, offers a brilliant takedown of ten shocking pieces of legislation that continue to perpetuate hate, racial bias, injustice, and inequality today. This is an urgent yet hopeful read for our current political climate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMystal is described as a grassroots legal superhero, with a superpower of explaining to the masses, in clear language, the all-too-human forces at play behind the making of our laws. Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eTears We Cannot Stop\u003c\/em\u003e, praises his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBad Law\u003c\/i\u003e, Mystal reimagines what our legal system, and society at large, could look like if we could move past legislation plagued by racism, misogyny, and corruption. Through accessible yet detailed prose and trenchant wit, Mystal argues that these egregiously awful laws—his \"Bill of Wrongs\"—continue to cause systematic and individual harm and should be repealed completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy exposing the flawed foundations of the rules we live by, and through biting humour and insight, \u003ci\u003eBad Law\u003c\/i\u003e offers a crisp, pertinent take on:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eAbortion and the Hyde Amendment, and the role federal funding, or lack thereof, has played in depriving women of necessary health and reproductive care.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eImmigration and illegal reentry, and the illusions that have been sold to us regarding immigration policy, reform, and whiteness at large.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eVoter registration laws, and how the right to vote has become a moral issue, and ironically, antidemocratic.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eGun control and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, and the extreme yet obvious dangers of granting immunity to gun manufacturers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the man Samantha Bee calls \"irrepressible and righteously indignant\" and Matt Levine of Bloomberg Opinion calls \"the funniest lawyer in America,\" Mystal points out that these laws do not come to us from on high; we write them, and we can and should unwrite them. In a fierce, funny, and wholly original takedown spanning all the hot-button topics in the country today, one of our most brilliant legal thinkers points the way to a saner tomorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423825346796,"sku":"9781620978580","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/81xZ8hXIsSL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774431912","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/bad-law-by-elie-mystal-9781620978580","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}