Mary-Hunter McDonnell
Mary Hunter McDonnell

MANAGEMENT & STRATEGY; BUSINESS LAW; MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATIONS
Visiting Assistant Professor of Business Law

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Mary-Hunter "Mae" McDonnell is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University School of Law. She obtained her JD in 2011 from the Harvard Law School. Additionally, she has an MS in Managment and Organizations from Kellogg and is currently in the final year of her PhD studies in the MORS department. Her BA is from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor McDonnell's research interests lie at the intersection of law and corporate behavior, including corporate governance, the punishment of corporate transgressions, and the formal and informal mechanisms through which we attempt to regulate corporate behavior.
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McDonnell, Mary-HunterLoran Nordgren and George F. Loewenstein. 2011. Torture in the Eyes of the Beholder: The Psychological Difficulty of Defining Torture in Law and Policy. Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. 44(1): 87-122.
Nordgren, Loran and Mary-Hunter McDonnell. 2011. The Scope-Severity Paradox: Why Doing More Harm is Judged to be Less Harmful. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 2: 97-102.
Nordgren, LoranMary-Hunter McDonnell and George F. Loewenstein. 2011. What Constitutes Torture? Psychological Impediments to an Objective Evaluation of Interrogation Tactics. Psychological Science. 22: 689-694.

 
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Full-Time / Part-Time MBA
Business Law I (BLAW-435-0)

This course counts toward the following majors: Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

A study of the legal environment in which organizations operate. Topics include contracts, agency, negotiable instruments, partnerships and corporations.