Awards

Titled Professor - 2019 - 2023

Rosen Professorship

Titled Professor - 2015 - 2019

R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law

Fulbright Award - 2014

India

Sylvia E. Bowman Award - 2010

About Jennifer Drobac

Jennifer Drobac earned her B.A. in history from Stanford University in 1981. Upon graduation, she continued her education at Stanford Law School where she earned her J.D. in 1987 and her J.S.D. in 2000. She joined the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) School of Law faculty in 2001 as an associate professor of law. She was promoted to full professor in 2007 and earned the additional, honorary title of R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law in 2015. In 2019, she was awarded the honorary Rosen Professorship.

Prior to joining the IU faculty, she practiced law in California, focusing on employment law issues and litigation from 1992 to 2001. 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 2016. Professor Drobac is also working on a book concerning adolescent neurological and psychosocial development and the law entitled WORDLY BUT NOT YET WISE for the University of Chicago Press.

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.