Melissa B. Jacoby
@mbjacoby.bsky.social
UNC-Chapel Hill professor studying debt/commercial law/bankruptcy & connections to everything else. Wrote a book https://www.mbjacoby.org/unjustdebts.
More on the bankrupt 23andMe, this time in the British Medical Journal
May 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
More on the bankrupt 23andMe, this time in the British Medical Journal
March 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Link now includes an interview with Prof. Sara Gerke...
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
March 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Link now includes an interview with Prof. Sara Gerke...
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
New in the New England Journal of Medicine ...
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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March 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
New in the New England Journal of Medicine ...
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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For those interested in forum and judge shopping in federal court, or bankruptcy more specifically.
December 10, 2024 at 2:25 PM
For those interested in forum and judge shopping in federal court, or bankruptcy more specifically.
Bipartisan bankruptcy legislation continues to be introduced (although rarely enacted).
www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
December 5, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Bipartisan bankruptcy legislation continues to be introduced (although rarely enacted).
www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Wow, thanks to readers who let me know about this! @thenewpress.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2024/11/22/1...
www.npr.org/2024/11/22/1...
November 22, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Wow, thanks to readers who let me know about this! @thenewpress.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2024/11/22/1...
www.npr.org/2024/11/22/1...
With so much going on in the news, why should you care about the inner workings of the American bankruptcy system too? Join us at this virtual event on Wednesday to discuss. rooseveltinstitute.org/event/roosev...
July 13, 2024 at 5:13 PM
With so much going on in the news, why should you care about the inner workings of the American bankruptcy system too? Join us at this virtual event on Wednesday to discuss. rooseveltinstitute.org/event/roosev...
Hey there, DC area!
This public Politics & Prose Unjust Debts event is tomorrow night, July 8. I'll be in conversation with Vicki Shabo of New America, so that will make it extra special.
Would love to see you.
This public Politics & Prose Unjust Debts event is tomorrow night, July 8. I'll be in conversation with Vicki Shabo of New America, so that will make it extra special.
Would love to see you.
July 7, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Hey there, DC area!
This public Politics & Prose Unjust Debts event is tomorrow night, July 8. I'll be in conversation with Vicki Shabo of New America, so that will make it extra special.
Would love to see you.
This public Politics & Prose Unjust Debts event is tomorrow night, July 8. I'll be in conversation with Vicki Shabo of New America, so that will make it extra special.
Would love to see you.
Want to learn and talk about unexpected sources of inequality and what to do? Join Senator Elizabeth Warren and me on July 1 for a virtual event & conversation. I'm told registrants can propose topics and questions to Senator Warren.
Register here: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2024-...
Register here: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2024-...
June 26, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Want to learn and talk about unexpected sources of inequality and what to do? Join Senator Elizabeth Warren and me on July 1 for a virtual event & conversation. I'm told registrants can propose topics and questions to Senator Warren.
Register here: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2024-...
Register here: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2024-...
When I say the American bankruptcy system intersects with everything, it is no joke.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
June 19, 2024 at 12:57 PM
When I say the American bankruptcy system intersects with everything, it is no joke.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My new book Unjust Debts, made this Financial Times best books list!!!
Still don't know too many people here on Bluesky and yet wanted to share so maybe I will be connected with more!
www.ft.com/content/057e...
Still don't know too many people here on Bluesky and yet wanted to share so maybe I will be connected with more!
www.ft.com/content/057e...
June 18, 2024 at 12:47 PM
My new book Unjust Debts, made this Financial Times best books list!!!
Still don't know too many people here on Bluesky and yet wanted to share so maybe I will be connected with more!
www.ft.com/content/057e...
Still don't know too many people here on Bluesky and yet wanted to share so maybe I will be connected with more!
www.ft.com/content/057e...
Jenny Offill predicted the future.
June 10, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Jenny Offill predicted the future.
Here are the Unjust Debts launch events for the summer so far! Please come hang out with me real or virtually if you can.
May 23, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Here are the Unjust Debts launch events for the summer so far! Please come hang out with me real or virtually if you can.
Hey there bluesky. Less than one month until my first book comes out. It tells stories from the American bankruptcy system that raise issues you might well about. Read more about it here: www.mbjacoby.org/unjustdebts
May 14, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Hey there bluesky. Less than one month until my first book comes out. It tells stories from the American bankruptcy system that raise issues you might well about. Read more about it here: www.mbjacoby.org/unjustdebts
As I hope to demystify bankruptcy law for the public, grateful for early praise of Unjust Debts, including starred review + interview in Publisher's Weekly.
Links here: www.mbjacoby.org/unjustdebts
Links here: www.mbjacoby.org/unjustdebts
April 22, 2024 at 11:51 AM
As I hope to demystify bankruptcy law for the public, grateful for early praise of Unjust Debts, including starred review + interview in Publisher's Weekly.
Links here: www.mbjacoby.org/unjustdebts
Links here: www.mbjacoby.org/unjustdebts
Prison health care company accused of mistreating incarcerated patients filed for bankruptcy, but only after extreme transactional maneuverings to insulate assets & operating business.
Finally, incarcerated claimants/families have bigger voice in case, and they say ... NO.
#Corizon/Tehum
Finally, incarcerated claimants/families have bigger voice in case, and they say ... NO.
#Corizon/Tehum
January 17, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Prison health care company accused of mistreating incarcerated patients filed for bankruptcy, but only after extreme transactional maneuverings to insulate assets & operating business.
Finally, incarcerated claimants/families have bigger voice in case, and they say ... NO.
#Corizon/Tehum
Finally, incarcerated claimants/families have bigger voice in case, and they say ... NO.
#Corizon/Tehum
Had been unsure sure about topic for first post on this site.
With mixed emotion, it is about Rudolph Giuliani's Chapter 11, a case that almost certainly will highlight how lawyers have transformed the bankruptcy system in problematic ways.
With mixed emotion, it is about Rudolph Giuliani's Chapter 11, a case that almost certainly will highlight how lawyers have transformed the bankruptcy system in problematic ways.
December 21, 2023 at 6:16 PM
Had been unsure sure about topic for first post on this site.
With mixed emotion, it is about Rudolph Giuliani's Chapter 11, a case that almost certainly will highlight how lawyers have transformed the bankruptcy system in problematic ways.
With mixed emotion, it is about Rudolph Giuliani's Chapter 11, a case that almost certainly will highlight how lawyers have transformed the bankruptcy system in problematic ways.