Walker Kahn

Walker Nelson Kahn is an Assistant Professor of Law at Tulane Law School and The Murphy Institute's Center for law and the Economy, where he teaches commercial law and political economy. Professor Kahn's research uses machine learning and ethnography to examine how civil courts adjudicate consumer debt, with a focus on foreclosure litigation, procedural due process, access to justice, and housing precarity. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation's Law and Science Dissertation Grant and received the Ronald Burt Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association.

Professor Kahn earned his J.D. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Before joining Tulane, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.