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IU McKinney Professor Jennifer Drobac has written a second edition to her textbook, Sexual Harassment Law: History, Cases, and Practice. It will be published in April by Carolina Academic Press.

Professor Drobac and the text’s co-authors, Carrie N. Baker and Rigel C. Oliveri, have created a companion website for the book, which will link to the trio’s Sexual Harassment Law Facebook page. The authors will provide up-to-date news and articles regarding sexual harassment and related topics. Professor Drobac recently posted two articles that discuss sexual cyberharassment in the era of COVID-19.

“While COVID-19 had disrupted everything, we are using the new focus on social media and online resources to help folks better understand the importance of #MeToo and offer guidance  on how to cope and stay safer,” Professor Drobac said.

The new textbook is the only comprehensive work on the origins and development of U.S. sexual harassment law in employment, education, housing, prisons, and the military. Beginning with the first sexual harassment cases in the early 1970s and extending through the #MeToo movement, the text examines statutory law, federal regulations, case law, and legal reasoning.

Professor Drobac is at work on her next book, The Myth of Consent, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. That work will explore the neuroscience of adult decision making and how the science should influence law reform, particularly the law of consent. She is a Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law.