Temple Beth Shalom is honored to present, Melissa B. Jacoby, legal scholar, to discuss how the rich and powerful are manipulating the bankruptcy system to their advantage while perpetuation inequality in America. Staying financially afloat in America is hard, and bankruptcy is supposed to be a safety valve for people and organizations when things go wrong. But for the first time, Melissa Jacoby, daughter of long time TBS congregants, Dr. Henry and Gloria Jacoby, and author of UNJUST DEBTS, reveals how bankruptcy has not only failed to deliver on this promise but has also become an escape hatch for powerful individuals, corporations, nonprofits, and governments, contributing to the race, gender, and class inequality in America.
To attend this engaging presentation in-person at Temple Beth Shalom and brunch of bagels, lox and whitefish to follow or on-line (via Zoom), please RSVP (no later than Friday, July 12th), to https://bit.ly/3Lb1vZr
More About Melissa Jacoby:
Melissa B. Jacoby is a legal scholar focused on bankruptcy and debt. She is the Graham Kenan Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and will be a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in Fall 2024. A frequent commentator on bankruptcy and debt in national media outlets, she has testified before Congress and has published over fifty articles, book chapters, and op-eds. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina , and Brooklyn, New York. Unjust Debts is her first book. Finder at Mbjacoby.org.