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 IU McKinney Professor Emerita Jennifer Drobac has given countless interviews on religious, reproductive, and sex-based civil rights. She remains in demand by local, national, and international media for her expertise in these areas of the law.

Professor Emerita Drobac has been helping media members to translate the law and complex legal issues for the public. The advent of the #MeToo movement and Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal created an even greater need for her expertise. She expanded her coverage of civil rights issues to focus on reproductive rights and abortion bans after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org. (2022)

Included among her interviews and writings are the following:

2024

Reproductive Rights

Mirror Indy on April 30

2023

Sex Discrimination:

• News from the States on August 7
• Barron's (subscription required) on August 3
• WTHR on May 17
• Indiana Daily Student on March 26

Reproductive rights:

• Indiana Lawyer on August 30
• Indiana Lawyer on April 12
• WRTV on April 11
• WSBT on January 22
• WFHB on January 19
• Indiana Public Broadcasting on January 18
• Indiana Public Media on January 11

2022

Reproductive rights

• Abortion, Every Day on December 22
• University of Southern Maine International Coalition Against Sexual Harassment on December 7
• WFHB on December 1
• Indiana Capital Chronicle on November 14
• WISH on October 14
• WNDU on October 13
• WSBT on October 12
• WRTV on October 12
• WMNC on October 9
• WTHR on October 4
• Bloomberg Law on September 29
• Indiana Lawyer on September 28
• Indiana Newsdesk for WTIU on September 23
• Two stories in Indiana Lawyer, including the injunction and the AG's next step, on September 23
• ABC57 on September 22
• Indianapolis News Station on September 16
• WRTV on September 16
• WTHR on September 15
• NBC News NOW on September 15
• Indiana Daily Student on September 15
• Washington Post on August 31
• WRTV on August 30
• WFYI on August 29
• Ms. Magazine on August 24
• WRTV on August 9
• New York Times on August 5 (subscription required)
• WTHR on August 5
• WFHB on August 4

Sex-based discrimination

• WRTV on November 28
• WISH on October 5
• USA Today on July 1
• WTHR on June 24
• News at IU on June 1
• Indiana Daily Student on April 12
• Bloomberg Law on February 10
• Yahoo Finance on January 22

2021

Sex-based discrimination

• The Campus Insights Project stories (concerning Professor Drobac's interview regarding the former Archbishop Theodore McCarrick sexual abuse case involving minor children) reached Iran, Vietnam, and the Voice of America.
• The Cancer Letter on December 31
• KCBS on November 30
• Evansville Courier & Press (subscription required) on April 19
• Wisconsin Public Radio on March 8
• AFP Fact Check on February 10

2020

Religious discrimination

• WXIN on July 8
• WISH on July 8

Sex-based discrimination

• Indianapolis Star on December 29
• New York Daily News on December 14
• Indiana Daily Student on December 9
• WISH on October 21
• Indiana Lawyer on September 30
• Elle on July 14
• WISH on June 18
• WRTV on June 16
• The Herald Times on June 15
• The Crime Report on May 12
• Ms. Magazine on May 8
• Indianapolis Star on March 3
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on February 12
• WRTV on January 31

2019

Sex-based discrimination

• Indianapolis Star on December 20
• Denver Voice on December 8
• Chicago Tribune on November 8
• Vox on October 29
• Associated Press on October 19, for a story that was published in the Washington Post, New York Times, and WSL ABC7 in Chicago.
• Indianapolis Star on August 29
• WNIN on July 5
• Indiana Lawyer on June 26
• Project Voice on June 22
• Indianapolis Star on June 13
• Associated Press on May 9
• FundFire, a division of the Financial Times, on April 29.
• Colorado Public Radio on April 22
• Indiana Lawyer on April 3
• Indiana Lawyer on March 7
• Associated Press on March 15, published in SouthCoastToday
• Indiana Lawyer on March 7
• WRTV Channel 6 on February 27
• The Tennessean on February 27
• The Associated Press on February 2
• The Statehouse File on January 24
• Indianapolis Star on January 24
• Indianapolis Business Journal on January 23
• Ms. Magazine's blog on January 15
• Arkansas Business on January 14

2018

Sex-based discrimination

• Associated Press, published in the Washington Post, on December 18
• Politico on December 18
• The Indianapolis Star on December 18
• The Indiana Lawyer on November 28
• The Indianapolis Star on November 16
• TheStatehouseFile.com, which appeared on IBJ.com and Nuvo.com, on November 15
• Indiana Lawyer on October 31
• WPTA television news, ABC21, in Fort Wayne on October 22
• Indiana Lawyer on October 17
• Des Moines Register on October 15
• IBJ's Forefront, in a column by Mary Beth Schneider, on October 12
• Morning Consult on October 11
• Knowledge@Wharton and SiriusXM on October 10
• The Indianapolis Star on October 10
• MarketWatch on October 7
• WTHR on September 24
• WTHR on September 23
• WFIU's Noon Edition program on September 21
• USA Today on September 18
• Circa and KGAN, the CBS and FOX news affiliate in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on September 17
• New York Magazine on September 5
• MarketWatch on August 21
• The ABA Journal
• Bloomberg Law on August 9
• The Associated Press, which appeared on WRTV on July 20
• The Associated Press, which appeared in the Post-Tribune, on July 19
• The Indianapolis Star on July 15
• The Indiana Lawyer on July 11
• Indianapolis television station Fox59 on July 9
• FoxNews.com on July 9
• Nuvo on July 6
• The Indiana Lawyer on July 6
• WTHR on July 6
• Indianapolis television news station WTHR on July 5
• The Indiana Lawyer on July 5
• The Indianapolis Business Journal on July 3
• The Indianapolis Star on July 3
• NPR on May 25
• WCCO, CBS Minnesota, on May 25. (Professor Drobac's comments begin at the 17:20 mark)
• The Washington Post, which also was picked up by Bloomberg and U.S. News on May 9
• KCET, the National Public Radio affiliate in Los Angeles, on May 4
• The Wall Street Journal on April 27
• The Associated Press, which appeared in Bloomberg, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe on April 27
• The Purdue Exponent on April 12
• The Washington Post on April 11
• U.S. News on April 11
• The Indianapolis Star on April 10
• ABA Journal on March 19
• Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting which was reported on by public radio station WFPL on March 5
• Bloomberg Radio on February 14
• Corriere della Sere on February 9
• Two stories: story one and story two, on casino developer Steve Wynn in the Las Vegas Review Journal on February 5
• Las Vegas Review-Journal on February 5
• Bloom Magazine on January 29
• Rocky Mountain Public Radio station KUNC on January 15
• Associated Press on January 11, which appeared in Business Insider, NBC in Chicago, and the Christian Science Monitor
• The Indiana Lawyer on January 10
• MarketWatch on January 9
• Bloomberg BNA on January 9
• Indianapolis Star on January 7

2017

Religious discrimination

• Indiana Lawyer on February 7

Sex-based discrimination

• Indianapolis Star on December 28, which also features an Indiana Law Review article by Kathryn Olivier, '09
• Vox on December 22
• NBC News on December 20
• WGN Radio on December 19
• LinkedIn on December 19
• Capital & Main on December 18
• Knowledge@Wharton on December 13
• The Washington Post on December 12
• KUNC, public radio in Colorado, on December 6
• Wisconsin State Journal on December 5
• WFIU radio Noon Edition in Bloomington, Indiana, on December 1
• Reuters on December 1
• Indiana Public Media on December 1
• Politico on November 30
• WTVN radio in Columbus, Ohio, on November 30
• MarketWatch on November 29
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on November 28
• Variety on November 28
• WNYC's The Takeaway on November 28
• Politico on November 22
• National Public Radio program, "Democracy Now!" on November 22
• How Stuff Works on November 20
• USA Today on November 20
• Vox's "Big Idea" on November 20
• Boston Globe on November 18
• OZY.com on November 16
• Jefferson Public Radio on November 14
• Los Angeles Times on November 13
• Roll Call on November 11
• Chicago Magazine on November 10
• WCCO, CBS Minnesota, on November 10
• Wisconsin Public Radio on November 10
• U.S. News & World Report on November 9
• TRTWorld on November 10
• San Francisco Chronicle on November 9
• The Tennessean on November 5
• Chicago radio station WGN on November 5
• Associated Press story on November 3
• KCRW radio in Santa Monica, California, on November 1
• Beltway News on October 30
• CQ Press on October 27
• Reuters on October 25
• ArsTechnica on October 25
• Washington Post on October 20
• Morning Consult on October 19
• CNN Money on October 16
• National Public Radio program, “On Point,” on October 11
• MarketWatch on October 10
• Movies Cheat Sheet on October 10
• Knowledge@Wharton on October 10
• Investors Hub on October 7
• New York Post on September 25
• MarketWatch on September 25

Professor Emerita Drobac is a widely known expert in sexual harassment law. She also participates in the Indiana University Campus Insights Project with the Associated Press. IU circulates her expertise regarding civil rights and sexual harassment and assault to media sources throughout the world. She is an author of the textbook, Sexual Harassment Law: History, Cases and Practice, 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 Emerita 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.