Pamela Foohey
Allen Post Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law and principal investigator with the Consumer Bankruptcy Project focusing on how legal rules affect financially distressed households.
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Feb 5, 2026 • 51min
Debt's Grip: What Consumer Bankruptcy Reveals About Financial Risk in America
Deborah Thorne, sociologist who centers filers' lived experience; Pamela Foohey, law professor who studies how rules shape financial distress; Robert M. Lawless, empirical bankruptcy scholar with decades of data. They explore which debts drive collapse, how households scramble to stay afloat, debt collection and questionable relief practices, and the policy choices that shift risk onto individuals.
