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JENNIFER L. ROSATO
Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs
Professor of Law
Email: Jennifer.L.Rosato@drexel.edu
Phone: 215-571-4707
Office: Earle
Mack School of Law, Room 405
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Education
J.D. University of Pennsylvania Law School
B.S. with distinction, Cornell University
Jennifer Rosato is an expert on family law, bioethics, health
law, civil procedure and legal ethics.
An experienced legal
educator, Dean Rosato served as acting dean for Drexel Law
during its inaugural year. In that
capacity, she played a leading role in shaping Drexel’s
innovative approach to legal education. Previously, she served
as associate dean for Student Affairs at Brooklyn Law School,
where she also served as co-director of the Center for Health,
Science and Public Policy and as professor of law. Since she
joined the academy in 1992, she has also taught at the University
of Pennsylvania Law School, New York University School of Law
and Villanova University School of Law.
Her scholarship focuses
on diverse legal issues that affect children and families.
Her articles include “The Ethics
of Clinical Trials: A Child's View,” in the Journal
of Law, Medicine and Ethics, “Children of Same-Sex Parents
Deserve the Security Blanket of the Parentage Presumption,” in Family Court Review,
and “The Children of ART (Assisted
Reproductive Technology): Can the Law Protect Them from Harm,” in Utah Law Review.
She has given presentations on bioethics and family law to audiences
of academics, judges, lawyers and others, including a discussion
of the human genome at the Massachusetts Judicial Conference
of the Probate and Family Law Department Judicial Conference,
and a talk on adolescent decision-making at an annual meeting
of the American Association of Law Schools.
Dean Rosato earned her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania
Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the University
of Pennsylvania Journal of International Business Law and won the
Edwin R. Keedy Moot Court Competition.
She clerked for the
Hon. Thomas N. O’Neill Jr. of U.S.
District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, before becoming
an associate with Hangley, Connolly, Epstein, Chicco, Foxman & Ewing.
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