Colleen Mandell


Colleen Mandell
  • Adjunct Faculty

Biography —

Colleen Mandell is a research attorney for the Kansas Supreme Court. She received her bachelor’s degree in English and mathematics from St. Norbert College and her J.D. from Marquette University Law School. She moved to Kansas to complete a two-year clerkship for Judge Robert D. Berger and Judge Mitchell L. Herren in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

Mandell’s writing draws from her background in mathematics, finance and technology, explore the relationship between these fields and the law.

Outside of her legal work, Mandell coaches the Kansas City Storm, a girls’ ice hockey team. She also loves to cook from her well-stocked recipe collection, although her favorite meal is one that someone else has prepared.

Education —

J.D., Marquette University Law School
Bachelor's Degree in English, St. Norbert College
Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, St. Norbert College

Teaching —

Supreme Court Seminar

Selected Publications —

Colleen Mandell and Morgan J. Lawrence, Expanding Access for the Credit Invisible with Just Four Easy Payments? The Unregulated Rise of Buy Now, Pay Later, 35 LOY. CONSUMER L. REV. 275 (2023).

Melissa Love Koenig and Colleen Mandell, A New Metaphor: How Artificial Intelligence Links Legal Reasoning and Mathematical Thinking, 105 MARQUETTE L. REVIEW 559 (2022).