Dawn Johnsen is a Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law—Bloomington, where she teaches and writes about issues of constitutional law. Her most recent publication is “‘TRAP’ing Roe in Indiana and a Common-Ground Alternative,” 118 Yale Law Journal 1356 (2009). She serves on the Board of the American Constitution Society. She served in the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), U.S. Department of Justice, as the acting assistant attorney general heading that office (1997-98) and as a deputy assistant attorney general (1993-96). In that capacity, she provided legal advice to the attorney general, the President, and the general counsels of the various executive branch agencies. President Obama nominated her again to lead OLC, after she served on his transition team, but the Senate failed to vote on the nomination. From 1988-93, she was the legal director of NARAL Pro-Choice America and from 1987-88, a staff counsel fellow at the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. She clerked for the Honorable Richard D. Cudahy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She received a B.A from Yale University in 1983 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1986.