Melissa Jacoby with Zephyr Teachout

Melissa Jacoby with Zephyr Teachout

Legal scholar Melissa Jacoby presents Unjust Debts, a groundbreaking look at the role of bankruptcy in perpetuating inequality in America.

By Greenlight Bookstore

Date and time

Thursday, June 27 · 7:30 - 8:30pm EDT

Location

Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene

686 Fulton Street Brooklyn, NY 11217

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About this event

  • 1 hour

IN-STORE EVENT:
Thursday, June 27, 7:30 PM
Melissa Jacoby presents Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal
In conversation with Zephyr Teachout
Wine reception to follow


Legal scholar Melissa Jacoby presents Unjust Debts, a groundbreaking look at the hidden role of bankruptcy in perpetuating inequality in America, from an expert in the field. In this brilliant and paradigm-shifting book, Melissa shows how bankruptcy has become an escape hatch for powerful individuals, corporations, and governments, contributing in unseen and poorly understood ways to race, gender, and class inequality in America. Across a broad range of crucial issues, Unjust Debts reveals the hidden mechanisms by which bankruptcy impacts everything from sexual harassment to health care, police violence to employment discrimination, and more. Unjust Debts is a riveting work of accessible scholarship with huge implications for ordinary people and will set the terms of debate for this vital subject. Melissa discusses her work with Zephyr Teachout, along with a reading and book signing.

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Greenlight Bookstore

Founded in October 2009, Greenlight Bookstore is a general independent bookstore in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, which hosts literary events in-store and with partner venues. The mission of Greenlight Bookstore is to create welcoming spaces for discovery, conversation, and connection around books, through curation, programming and service that provides for the needs and interests of our customers and highlights creative work we love and value, based on a commitment to improving equity and sustainability in our company and our community. Through knowledgeable staff, curated book selection, community partnerships, and a robust e-commerce website as well as a beautiful bookstore spaces, Greenlight combines the best traditions of the neighborhood bookstore with a forward-looking sensibility. Greenlight has garnered local, national, and international press coverage for its innovative startup model and its continuing success. More information and details, along with book purchase options, can be found at greenlightbookstore.com.

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