Law's Infamy: Understanding the Canon of Bad LawAn analysis of how problematic laws ought to be framed and considered From the murder of George Floyd to the systematic dismantling of voting rights, our laws and their implementation are actively shaping the course of our nation. But however abhorrent a legal decision might be whether Dred Scott v. Sanford or Plessy v. Ferguson the stories we tell of the law's failures refer to their injustice and rarely label them in the language of infamy. Yet in