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Professor Drobac Speaks with New York Times on New Indiana Law
08/10/2022
IU McKinney Professor Jennifer Drobac talked with a reporter from the New York Times for a story on Indiana’s new abortion law, slated to take effect in September. The story appeared August 5. (subscription required)
The new law was passed during a special session of the Indiana General Assembly, a fact that concerns Professor Drobac. “Law made in haste is often bad law,” she said in the story. “This highlights the fact that these guys are not anticipating how unworkable this legislation will be. This is going to impact thousands of people who get pregnant in Indiana alone.”
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 decision making in vulnerable adults and how the science should influence law reform, particularly the law of consent. She is a Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law.
