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Professor Drobac Talks about Indiana's Abortion Law with Indianapolis Television News
08/11/2022
IU McKinney Professor Jennifer Drobac was one of the legal experts who talked about Indiana’s near-total abortion ban for a story with WRTV television news.
The new law, slated to take effect September 15, is something lawmakers should have considered longer than they did during the two-week special session. Professor Drobac believes the law could face legal challenges as it currently stands. “I think other states need to be watching what happens here in Indiana,” she said in the story. “I don’t think things will evolve comfortably here.”
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.
