Graham Kenan Professor of Law
Melissa B. Jacoby, the Graham Kenan Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, studies and teaches bankruptcy and commercial law and also participates in law reform activities in these areas. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, the National Bankruptcy Conference, and, in March 2013, was formally inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. She is a member of Duke University's Rethinking Regulation initiative and contributes to Credit Slips. Jacoby recently won UNC Law's Byrd Award for Excellence and Creativity in Teaching, and the Pro Bono Publico Faculty Member of the Year Award. Earlier in Jacoby's career, she clerked for the Honorable Robert E. Ginsberg of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the Honorable Marjorie O. Rendell of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and worked in Washington D.C. as a senior staff attorney for the National Bankruptcy Review Commission. Jacoby's academic life began at Temple University, where she taught for four years before joining the UNC faculty. Her B.A. and J.D. degrees are from the University of Pennsylvania.
Curriculum Vitae 
Selected Publications
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Ice Cube Bonds and the Price of Process in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy (with T. Janger), __ YALE L. J. ___ (forthcoming 2013).
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In or Out of Mortgage Trouble? A Study of Bankrupt Homeowners (with D. McCue & E. Belsky), 85 AM. BANKR. L.J. 291 (2011). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN, Hein, BEPress]
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Managing Medical Bills on the Brink of Bankruptcy (with M. Holman), 10 YALE J. HEALTH POL'Y L. & ETHICS 239 (2010). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN, Hein, BEPress]
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The Debt Financing of Parenthood, 72 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 147 (2009) (symposium). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN, Hein, BEPress]
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Homeownership Risk Beyond a Subprime Crisis: The Role of Delinquency Management, 76 FORDHAM L. REV. 2261 (2008). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN, Hein, BEPress]
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Beyond Hospital Misbehavior: An Alternative Account of Medical-Related Financial Distress (with E. Warren), 100 NW. U.L. REV. 535 (2006). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN, Hein, BEPress]
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Fast, Cheap, and Creditor-Controlled: Is Corporate Reorganization Failing? 54 BUFF. L. REV. 401 (2006) (symposium), (reviewing LYNN M. LOPUCKI, COURTING FAILURE: HOW COMPETITION FOR BIG CASES IS CORRUPTING THE BANKRUPTCY COURTS (2005)). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN, Hein, BEPress KF1526 .L67 2005]
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Ripple or Revolution? The Indeterminacy of Statutory Bankruptcy Reform, 79 AM. BANKR. L.J. 169 (2005) (symposium). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN, Hein, BEPress]
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The Bankruptcy Code at Twenty-Five and the Next Generation of Lawmaking, 78 AM. BANKR. L.J. 221 (2004) (symposium). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN, Hein, BEPress]
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Foreclosing on Fame: Exploring the Uncharted Boundaries of the Right of Publicity, 77 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1322 (2002) (with D. Zimmerman) (reprinted in 11 J. BANKR. L. & PRAC. (2002)). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN, Hein, BEPress]