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The Indiana Attorney General’s Office has petitioned the United States Supreme Court to consider the case Box v. Henderson, which would dramatically roll back the parenting rights of same-sex couples. Professor Jennifer Drobac talked about the move for a story that appeared in the Indiana Daily Student. A portion of the interview was subsequently incorporated into a story that appeared in the New York Daily News.

The case could permit Indiana to refuse to list the wives of birth mothers on their children’s birth certificates. “What Indiana is trying to do is take away a parent of a child born into a marriage,” Professor Drobac said in the story. “Why would anyone do that?”

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled against the state. The U.S. Supreme Court will discuss the case at its December 11 conference.  

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