Alexandria, Va. — Prof. Melissa B. Jacoby, the Graham Kenan Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will serve as the Robert M. Zinman ABI Resident Scholar for the Spring 2016 semester. Helping to maintain ABI’s position as the authoritative source of bankruptcy information for Congress, the media and the public, Prof. Jacoby will serve in ABI’s Alexandria, Va., offices through May.
An ABI member since 2012, Prof. Jacoby teaches courses on bankruptcy, lending transactions and contracts. In 2015, her research on corporate bankruptcy and secured credit won the Grant Gilmore Award from the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers and the Chadbourn Award from UNC Law. Prof. Jacoby presented a paper "Renaissance Judging and Bankruptcy Reform" at the ABI Chapter 11 Study Commission's academic forum in Chicago in April 2014. She was also the inaugural winner, in 2009, of the Byrd teaching award at UNC Law.
Prof. Jacoby is an elected member of the National Bankruptcy Conference and a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, for which she also serves on its Board of Regents. For her professional service contributions, she won UNC Law’s Pro Bono Publico Award for Faculty Member of the Year in 2012.
Previously, Prof. Jacoby clerked for Judge Robert E. Ginsberg of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois and Judge Marjorie O. Rendell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She also worked on a wide spectrum of bankruptcy policy and reform issues, principally as a staff attorney for the National Bankruptcy Review Commission. She graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, as well as Penn’s College of Arts and Sciences, where she majored in history.
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ABI is the largest multi-disciplinary, nonpartisan organization dedicated to research and education on matters related to insolvency. ABI was founded in 1982 to provide Congress and the public with unbiased analysis of bankruptcy issues. The ABI membership includes more than 12,000 attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround specialists and other bankruptcy professionals, providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and information. For additional information on ABI, visit www.abi.org. For additional conference information, visit http://www.abi.org/calendar-of-events.