Honoree

Jennifer Drobac
AWARDS
  • Sylvia E. Bowman Award (2010)
  • Robert H. McKinney School of Law
  • Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

BIOGRAPHY
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. 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. A new edition of that text is expected in 2012. Professor Drobac is also working on a book concerning adolescent neurological and psychosocial development and the law, Worldly But Not Yet Wise , for University of Chicago Press.

Professor Drobac received the Indiana University 2010 Sylvia E. Bowman Distinguished Teaching Award. She 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.