Walker Kahn joins The Baldy Center in Fall 2024 as a postdoctoral fellow. He studies court systems, financial markets, and debt collection processes. His research examines how mortgage foreclosure litigation links financial markets to the precarity experienced by everyday people. He focuses on how financialization has changed the social organization of mortgage foreclosure, how financial sector actors work to degrade legal rights and processes that protect borrowers, and how judges manage conflicts between new debt collection practices, courts’ resource constraints, and the formal demands of legal procedure. Walker received his JD and PhD from The University of Wisconsin, and his work has been supported by the NSF Law and Science Program and the Center for Engaged Scholarship.