Walker Kahn

Walker Kahn joins The Murphy Institute and Tulane Law School as an Assistant Professor, effective July 2026. As a member of the Murphy Core Faculty, he contributes to the Center for Law and the Economy's interdisciplinary research and teaches courses in the Undergraduate Program in Political Economy. 

Kahn’s research focuses on mortgage foreclosure, housing markets, and court systems. His scholarship examines foreclosure litigation as a critical link between mortgage lending and housing precarity. By tracing the history of foreclosure during the subprime mortgage boom, he explores how the expansion of high-risk lending fostered new litigation strategies that shifted financial risk onto struggling homeowners and deepened social inequality.

Prior to his appointment at Tulane, Kahn was a research fellow at the University at Buffalo Law School’s Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. He received his JD-PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 2024.