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Melissa B. Jacoby

@mbjacoby.bsky.social
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UNC-Chapel Hill professor; author of Unjust Debts; pieces in NYTimes, The Nation, etc. I see collateral everywhere. www.mbjacoby.org/unjustdebts.

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Melissa B. Jacoby @mbjacoby.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Have you watched this yet? 17+ minutes on The Daily Show of substantive conversation about a serious book, The Middle-Class New Deal. Proud to know you, Professor Dickerson!
Screen shot of Professor Mechele Dickerson talking to John Stewart on The Daily Show
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Melissa B. Jacoby @mbjacoby.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
More on the bankrupt 23andMe, this time in the British Medical Journal
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Melissa B. Jacoby @mbjacoby.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
new bankruptcy/sovereign immunity decision from #SCOTUS www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Melissa B. Jacoby @mbjacoby.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Link now includes an interview with Prof. Sara Gerke... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
screen shot of New England Journal of Medicine twitter post including quote from article at link
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Melissa B. Jacoby @mbjacoby.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
New in the New England Journal of Medicine ... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... (screenshot from the other place)
Screen shot of twitter post from Petrie-Flom Center announcing article
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Melissa B. Jacoby @mbjacoby.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
For those interested in forum and judge shopping in federal court, or bankruptcy more specifically.
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Melissa B. Jacoby @mbjacoby.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Bipartisan bankruptcy legislation continues to be introduced (although rarely enacted). www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Screenshot of press release from Senator Durbin's website about bankruptcy legislation introduced on December 5, 2024
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Melissa B. Jacoby @mbjacoby.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Wow, thanks to readers who let me know about this! @thenewpress.bsky.social www.npr.org/2024/11/22/1...
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Melissa B. Jacoby @mbjacoby.bsky.social · 13/07/2024
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...
Green flyer with Unjust Debts book cover, announcing book club event July 17 2024 at 3pm ET with Melissa Jacoby and Hannah Groch-Begley
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Melissa B. Jacoby @mbjacoby.bsky.social · 07/07/2024
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.
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Melissa B. Jacoby @mbjacoby.bsky.social · 26/06/2024
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-...
photo of event details and speakers
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Melissa B. Jacoby @mbjacoby.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
When I say the American bankruptcy system intersects with everything, it is no joke. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Title of essay in The Nation, linked to post
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Melissa B. Jacoby @mbjacoby.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
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...
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Melissa B. Jacoby @mbjacoby.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
Jenny Offill predicted the future.
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Melissa B. Jacoby @mbjacoby.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
Here are the Unjust Debts launch events for the summer so far! Please come hang out with me real or virtually if you can.
list of in-person and virtual events to discuss book Unjust Debts, with book cover and photo of author
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Melissa B. Jacoby @mbjacoby.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
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
spine of hardback book with name and author, partial view of back and front of book.
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Melissa B. Jacoby @mbjacoby.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
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
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Melissa B. Jacoby @mbjacoby.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
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
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Melissa B. Jacoby @mbjacoby.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
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.
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