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Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill will serve a 30-day suspension from the practice of law beginning May 18, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled. He was suspended over his conduct at a gathering of legislative staff members. Professor Jennifer Drobac discussed the high court’s ruling in the case for a story in the Indianapolis Star.

Hill was accused of groping four women at the party in March 2018. The Supreme Court unanimously suspended him for 30 days with automatic reinstatement. The court determined that Hill violated the Rules of Professional Conduct and committed the criminal act of battery.

"This is a huge vindication of what the women were claiming," Professor Drobac said in the story. “That what Curtis Hill did was battery. That, to me, is huge."

Professor Drobac is a widely known expert in sexual harassment law. She is an author of the textbook, Sexual Harassment Law: History, Cases and Practice, recently published by Carolina Academic Press. She co-authored the book with Professor Carrie N. Baker of Smith College and Professor Rigel C. Oliveri of the University of Missouri School of Law.  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.