Professors Drobac and Nguyen Present during Feminism, Gender, and the Law Conference
11/17/2021
Professors Jennifer Drobac and Xuan-Thao Nguyen took part in a hybrid conference titled “Feminism, Gender, and the Law” which was hosted by Vietnam National University – University of Economics and Law. The event took place on October 29.
Professor Drobac delivered one of the keynote addresses and presented “U.S. Feminist Legal Theory: Historical Roots and Modern Branches.” Professor Nguyen served as chair of the event’s first panel discussion on the topic “Violence Against Women and Sexual Harassment.”
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.
Professor Nguyen is an internationally known legal scholar renowned for her expertise in the intersections of Intellectual Property, Contracts, Secured Transactions, Bankruptcy, Licensing and Taxation. She is the Gerald L. Bepko Endowed Chair in Law at IU McKinney. During the 2018-2019 academic year, she was the Garvey Schubert Barer Visiting Professor of Law at University of Washington School of Law. Professor Nguyen received Indiana University’s Trustees Teaching Award in 2020. She is the recipient of the 2016 Grant Gilmore Award from the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers for her outstanding publications: "In the Name of Patent Stewardship: The Federal Circuit’s Overreach in Commercial Law," 67 Florida L. Rev. 127 (2015) and "Financing Innovation: Legal Development of Intellectual Property as Security in Financing,1845-2014," 48 Indiana Law Review 509 (2015).
