Jennifer A. Drobac Professor of Law Director, Central & Eastern European Law Summer Program Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, Room 215 530 W. New York Street Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225 Phone: (317) 278-4777 Fax: (317) 278-7563 E-Mail: jdrobac@iupui.edu

Education

B.A., 1981, M.A., 1987, Stanford University
J.D., 1987, J.S.D., 2000, Stanford Law School

Courses

Family law, juvenile law, sexual harassment law, bioethics: AIDS law, professional responsibility

Bio

Jennifer Drobac joined the law school faculty in the fall of 2001. From 1992 to 2001, she practiced law in California, focusing on employment law issues and litigation, and from 1997 to 2000, she served as a lecturer at Stanford Law School. Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable Barefoot Sanders, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Her scholarly work has been published in a variety of law reviews and journals In 2005, she finished her first textbook, Sexual Harassment Law: History, Cases and Theory. Additionally, Professor Drobac serves on the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Board of Trustees.

Professor Drobac also received the 2005 Indiana University Trustees' Teaching Award.  She was named a John S. Grimes Fellow in 2006 and 2009 and a Dean's Fellow in recognition of scholarly excellence in 2005-2006.

Publications

Books and Chapters

Sexual Harassment Law: History, Cases, and Theory (Carolina Academic Press, 2005)

ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, Sex-Based Harassment: Best Practices For the Legal Profession, Prepared for the Commission by Deborah L. Rhode and Jennifer A. Drobac (December 2002).


Law Review and Journal Articles

Jazzing Up Family Law, 42 INDIANA L. REV. 533 (2009).

A Uniform Domestic Partnership Act: Marrying Business Partnership And Family Law, 41 GEORGIA L. REV. 349 (lead article, coauthored with Antony Page)(2007).

I Can’t To I Kant: The Sexual Harassment of Working Adolescents, Competing Theories, and Ethical Dilemmas, 70 Albany L. Rev.675 (2007).

“Developing Capacity”: Adolescent “Consent” at the Workplace, at Law, and in the Sciences of the Mind, 10 U.C. DAVIS J. JUVENILE L. & POL’Y 1 (2006)(lead article).

Sex and the Workplace: "Consenting" Adolescents and a Conflict of Laws, 79 WASH. L. REV. 471 (2004).

Pansexuality and the Law, 5 WM. & MARY J. WOMEN & L. 297 (1999).

The Oncale Opinion: A Pansexual Response, 30 MCGEORGE L. REV. 1269 (1999).

Note, For the Sake of the Children: Court Consideration of Religion in Child Custody Cases, 50 STAN. L. REV. 1609 (1998).

The "Perfect" Jointure: Its Formulation After the Statute of Uses, 19 CAMBRIAN L. REV. 26 (1988).