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Jacoby teaches and studies bankruptcy and commercial law.

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Jacoby teaches and studies bankruptcy and commercial law.

Present	Graham Kenan Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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In or Out of Mortgage Trouble? A Study of Bankrupt ...

American Bankruptcy Law Journal (2011)

Melissa B. Jacoby, Daniel T. McCue and Eric M. Belsky

We examine the determinants of missed payments and foreclosure initiation among a national sample of homeowners who filed for personal ...

Unpublished Paper

Making Debtor Remedies More Effective

Melissa B. Jacoby

Commissioned for a conference on credit markets at Harvard Business School in February 2010, this paper explores functional system design ...

The Value(s) of Foreclosure Law Reform

Pepperdine Law Review (2010)

Melissa B. Jacoby

This symposium contribution examines the starkly different values reflected in traditional legal literature on foreclosure law reform in the U.S. ...

Bankruptcy Reform and the Financial Crisis

North Carolina Banking Institute (2009)

Melissa B. Jacoby

Empirical and Policy Perspectives on Consumer Bankruptcy Law in the ...

Melissa B. Jacoby

This chapter, published in Spanish, offers new empirical data from the U.S. on consumer bankruptcy filers from the 2007 Consumer ...

Home Mortgage Problems Through the Lens of Bankruptcy

Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law (2009)

Melissa B. Jacoby

Based on a lecture at a predatory lending conference at Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, this brief paper ...

Home Ownership Beyond a Subprime Crisis: The Role of Delinquency ...

Fordham Law Review (2008)

Melissa B. Jacoby

Bankruptcy Reform and Homeownership Risk

University of Illinois Law Review (2007)

Melissa B. Jacoby

Identifying and Managing Household Risk: Lessons from Bankruptcy

Melissa B. Jacoby

This is a contribution to a web symposium hosted by the Social Science Research Counsel on Privatization of Risk organized ...

Dodd-Frank, Regulatory Innovation, and the Safety of Consumer Financial Products

North Carolina Banking Institute Journal (2011)

Melissa B. Jacoby

Among the many parts of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, few have received as much mainstream ...

In or Out of Mortgage Trouble? A Study of Bankrupt ...

American Bankruptcy Law Journal (2011)

Melissa B. Jacoby, Daniel T. McCue and Eric M. Belsky

We examine the determinants of missed payments and foreclosure initiation among a national sample of homeowners who filed for personal ...

Credit for Motherhood

North Carolina Law Review (2010)

Melissa B. Jacoby

This essay builds on prior work exploring the impact of consumer lenders who sell credit products for assisted reproduction and ...

Managing Medical Bills on the Brink of Bankruptcy

Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics (2010)

Melissa B. Jacoby and Mirya Holman

This paper presents original empirical evidence on financial interactions between medical providers and their patients who go bankrupt. We use ...

The Value(s) of Foreclosure Law Reform

Pepperdine Law Review (2010)

Melissa B. Jacoby

This symposium contribution examines the starkly different values reflected in traditional legal literature on foreclosure law reform in the U.S. ...

Empirical and Policy Perspectives on Consumer Bankruptcy Law in the ...

Melissa B. Jacoby

This chapter, published in Spanish, offers new empirical data from the U.S. on consumer bankruptcy filers from the 2007 Consumer ...

Individual Health Insurance Mandates and Financial Distress: A Few Notes ...

University of Kansas Law Review (2007)

Melissa B. Jacoby

The Debtor-Patient Revisited

Saint Louis University Law Journal (2007)

Melissa B. Jacoby

Bankruptcy Reform and the Cost of Sickness: Exploring the Intersections

University of Missouri Law Review (2006)

Melissa B. Jacoby

Beyond Hospital Misbehavior: An Alternative Account of Medical Related Financial ...

Northwestern Law Review (2006)

Melissa B. Jacoby and Elizabeth Warren

Not-for-Profit Hospital Billing and Collection: Resisting Quick Legal Fixes

American Heart Hospital Journal (2005)

Melissa B. Jacoby

Congressional Testimony: A Review of Hospital Billing and Collection Practices

Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States House of Representatives (2004)

Melissa B. Jacoby

The Debtor-Patient: In Search of Non-Debt Alternatives

Brooklyn Law Review (2004)

Melissa B. Jacoby

Generosity versus Accessibility: Bankruptcy, Consumer Credit, and Health Care Finance ...

Melissa B. Jacoby

Does Indebtedness Influence Health? A Preliminary Inquiry

Journal of Law Medicine and Ethics (2002)

Melissa B. Jacoby

Winner of the Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics

Collecting Debts from the Ill and Injured; The Rhetorical Significance ...

American University Law Review (2001)

Melissa B. Jacoby