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The Indiana Attorney General presented a new edition of what he has labeled the “Parents’ Bill of Rights” in which he focuses on religion and calls the separation of church and state a myth. IU McKinney Professor Jennifer Drobac told Indiana Citizen that the attorney general is misstating the law.

The “Parents’ Bill of Rights” outlines what the attorney general says are the recourses parents have regarding school curriculum, medical decisions, and school choice. During the online press conference, the attorney general said.

Professor Drobac called the statement “a misstatement of the law” in a news story for the online publication that was posted August 11.

Professor Drobac is a widely known expert in family law as well as sexual harassment law. She also participates in the Indiana University Campus Insights Project with the Associated Press. She is frequently consulted for her expertise regarding civil rights and sexual harassment and assault by media sources throughout the world. 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.