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Professor Jennifer Drobac will discuss her latest research on sexual harassment during a virtual lecture at US Santa Cruz. The event will take place October 18 beginning at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time.

Professor Drobac’s recent work centers around the premise that sexual harassment should be treated by companies as a civil misappropriation, embezzlement, conversion, or theft as well as a civil rights violation. She also considers three potential objections to this line of thinking: that it is a minor corporate expense, that it commodifies targets of harassment, and that it will not change corporate culture. Visit the event’s webpage to learn more and register.

Professor Drobac is a widely known expert in sexual harassment law. She is a Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law at IU McKinney and has given more than 100 interviews to media members worldwide in connection to the #MeToo movement. 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.