Have you watched this yet? 17+ minutes on The Daily Show of substantive conversation about a serious book, The Middle-Class New Deal. Proud to know you, Professor Dickerson!

More on the bankrupt 23andMe, this time in the British Medical Journal

new bankruptcy/sovereign immunity decision from #SCOTUS www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Link now includes an interview with Prof. Sara Gerke... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

New in the New England Journal of Medicine ... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... (screenshot from the other place)

For those interested in forum and judge shopping in federal court, or bankruptcy more specifically.

Bipartisan bankruptcy legislation continues to be introduced (although rarely enacted). www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Wow, thanks to readers who let me know about this! @thenewpress.bsky.social www.npr.org/2024/11/22/1...

With so much going on in the news, why should you care about the inner workings of the American bankruptcy system too? Join us at this virtual event on Wednesday to discuss. rooseveltinstitute.org/event/roosev...

Hey there, DC area! This public Politics & Prose Unjust Debts event is tomorrow night, July 8. I'll be in conversation with Vicki Shabo of New America, so that will make it extra special. Would love to see you.

Want to learn and talk about unexpected sources of inequality and what to do? Join Senator Elizabeth Warren and me on July 1 for a virtual event & conversation. I'm told registrants can propose topics and questions to Senator Warren. Register here: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2024-...

When I say the American bankruptcy system intersects with everything, it is no joke. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

My new book Unjust Debts, made this Financial Times best books list!!! Still don't know too many people here on Bluesky and yet wanted to share so maybe I will be connected with more! www.ft.com/content/057e...

Jenny Offill predicted the future.

Here are the Unjust Debts launch events for the summer so far! Please come hang out with me real or virtually if you can.

Hey there bluesky. Less than one month until my first book comes out. It tells stories from the American bankruptcy system that raise issues you might well about. Read more about it here: www.mbjacoby.org/unjustdebts

As I hope to demystify bankruptcy law for the public, grateful for early praise of Unjust Debts, including starred review + interview in Publisher's Weekly.  Links here: www.mbjacoby.org/unjustdebts

Prison health care company accused of mistreating incarcerated patients filed for bankruptcy, but only after extreme transactional maneuverings to insulate assets & operating business. Finally, incarcerated claimants/families have bigger voice in case, and they say ... NO. #Corizon/Tehum

Had been unsure sure about topic for first post on this site. With mixed emotion, it is about Rudolph Giuliani's Chapter 11, a case that almost certainly will highlight how lawyers have transformed the bankruptcy system in problematic ways.