Melissa Jacoby is the George R. Ward Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her scholarship takes interdisciplinary approaches to bankruptcy, debtor-creditor and commercial law and she has won two awards for her work on the intersection of law, debt, and health. She is a co-principal investigator of the 2007 Consumer Bankruptcy Project, the first nationally representative academic study of families in bankruptcy, and a fellow of the Bankruptcy Data Project at Harvard University. Ongoing research projects include examinations of medical-specific credit, mortgage delinquency, the determinants of bankruptcy among low-income homeowners, judicial behavior and the bankruptcy court, and the feasibility of corporate reorganization.
Bankruptcy and Home Mortgage Delinquency
Home Ownership Beyond a Subprime Crisis: The Role of Delinquency Management, Fordham Law Review (2008)
Identifying and Managing Household Risk: Lessons from Bankruptcy (2005)
This is a contribution to a web symposium hosted by the Social Science Research Counsel...
Bankruptcy, Debt, and Health
Managing Medical Bills on the Brink of Bankruptcy (with Mirya Holman), Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics (2010)
This paper presents original empirical evidence on financial interactions between medical providers and their patients...
Individual Health Insurance Mandates and Financial Distress: A Few Notes from the Debtor-Creditor Research and Debates, University of Kansas Law Review (2007)
Bankruptcy Reform and the Cost of Sickness: Exploring the Intersections, University of Missouri Law Review (2006)
Beyond Hospital Misbehavior: An Alternative Account of Medical Related Financial Distress (with Elizabeth Warren), Northwestern Law Review (2006)
Comparative Insolvency Regimes
Review Essay on Comparative Consumer Insolvency Regimes (by Jacob Ziegel, 2003), Canadian Business Law Journal (2004)
Generosity versus Accessibility: Bankruptcy, Consumer Credit, and Health Care Finance in the U.S., Consumer Bankruptcy in Global Perspective (2003)
Corporate Reorganization
Presentation: Odious Debt and Commercial Law Principles: Some Skepticism, Duke Law School Symposium on Odious Debt and State Corruption (2007)
Fast, Cheap, and Creditor Controlled: Is Corporate Reorganization Failing?, Buffalo Law Review (2006)
The Bankruptcy Code at Twenty-Five and the Next Generation of Lawmaking, American Bankruptcy Law Journal (2004)
Intellectual Property and Bankruptcy
Foreclosing on Fame: Exploring the Uncharted Boundaries of the Right of Publicity (with Dianne Leenheer Zimmerman), New York University Law Review (2002)
Auctioning Kim Basinger: The Imminent Collision of Bankruptcy and the "Right of Publicity", Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser (2001)
Judicial Behavior - Bankruptcy Courts
Fast, Cheap, and Creditor Controlled: Is Corporate Reorganization Failing?, Buffalo Law Review (2006)
Ripple or Revolution? The Indeterminacy of Statutory Bankruptcy Reform, American Bankruptcy Law Journal (2005)
The Bankruptcy Code at Twenty-Five and the Next Generation of Lawmaking, American Bankruptcy Law Journal (2004)
Legislative Process and Bankruptcy
Managing Medical Bills on the Brink of Bankruptcy (with Mirya Holman), Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics (2010)
This paper presents original empirical evidence on financial interactions between medical providers and their patients...
Bankruptcy Reform and the Cost of Sickness: Exploring the Intersections, University of Missouri Law Review (2006)
Identifying and Managing Household Risk: Lessons from Bankruptcy (2005)
This is a contribution to a web symposium hosted by the Social Science Research Counsel...