Recent and archived work by Melissa B. Jacoby for The New York Times Companies are increasingly using the bankruptcy process to shortchange the rights of those seeking accountability for corporate ...

Bankruptcy is the busiest federal court in the U.S. Last year, more than 200 companies with at least $50 million in liabilities filed for bankruptcy, according to Bloomberg. That’s the second most ...

Professor Melissa Jacoby argues in her new book that the bankruptcy system in the U.S. is increasing inequality, helping corporations and hurting some struggling families. Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes ...

“The federal Bankruptcy Code intersects with the lives of more people in the United States than virtually any other law does,” asserts UNC law professor Jacoby in her startling debut exposé. She ...

In Unjust Debts (New Press, June), Jacoby explains how the powerful use bankruptcy to evade accountability. When did you begin looking into bankruptcy? I fell in love with bankruptcy in law school; my ...

Two nonfiction books question the efficacy of financial systems that are meant to help lift people out of poverty. In Unjust Debts, law professor Melissa Jacoby argues that bankruptcy in the United ...

Melissa B. Jacoby is a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Unjust Debts: How our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal. And the Supreme Court may ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Melissa B. Jacoby is a Professor for School of Law in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a ...