Mary-Hunter McDonnell

McDonnell, Mary-Hunter

Visiting Assistant Professor

Phone: (312) 503-0227
E-mail: m-mcdonnell@kellogg.northwestern.edu

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Mae McDonnell is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law 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.

Areas of Expertise

  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Law
  • Empirical Legal Research

Courses

Selected Publications

  • The Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility, Reputation, and Activist Targeting in Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World, Kiyoteru Tsutsui (ed.) (Forthcoming).
  • Moral Character, Motive, and the Psychology of Blame in 97 cornell law review (2012). (with Janice Nadler)
  • What Constitutes Torture? Psychological Impediments to an Objective Evaluation of Interrogation Tactics in psychological science (Forthcoming). (with Loran Nordgren & George Loewenstein)
  • Torture in the Eyes of the Beholder: The Psychological Difficulty of Defining Torture in Law and Policy in 44 vanderbilt journal of transnational law 87-122 (2011). (with Loran Nordgren & George Loewenstein)
  • The Scope-Severity Paradox: Why Doing More Harm is Judged to be Less Harmful in 2 social psychological and personality science 97-102 (2011). (with Loran Nordgren)
  • Note: Babies and Bathwater: Seeking an Appropriate Standard of Review for the Asylum Applications of Former Child Soldiers in 21 harvard human rights journal 281 (2008).
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Education

  • BA, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • MS, Kellogg School of Management
  • JD, Harvard Law School
  • PhD, Kellogg School of Management