Melissa B. Jacoby

Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she wrote over fifty articles and book chapters and testified before U.S. Congress on debtor-creditor relations and their intersections with other major policy issues, prior to the release of her first book, Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal (The New Press, 2024; audiobook Tantor Media, Feb 25, 2025).
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Making Americans Bankrupt Again?

About the Book: Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal, by Melissa B. Jacoby (The New Press,…

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