Rose H. Vacanti Gilroy is an associate in SSRGA’s Fertility Law and Matrimonial and Family Law practices. She is licensed in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. In addition to maintaining a burgeoning matrimonial practice, Rose has gained recognition in the rapidly evolving field of fertility law. She handles complex parentage establishment matters, surrogacy and donor arrangements, and has developed a niche representing LGBTQ+ parents using sperm donation in newly established parentage proceedings, without the need for a second-parent adoption.

Rose is a member of the Assisted Reproductive Technologies CLE Planning Committee for the American Bar Association Family Law Section, the New York Women’s Bar Association Reproductive Rights Committee, the New York State Bar Association Surrogacy Subcommittee, and the LGBT Bar Association of New York.

Rose’s writing on the topics of assisted reproduction and LGBTQ+ parentage has appeared in the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law, and Justice, the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, and the Tulane Journal of Law and Sexuality.

Rose received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she returns to lecture on the topics of fertility and matrimonial law. During law school she served as the Senior Notes Editor of the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, a law clerk intern for the Honorable Deborah J. Israel of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, a student attorney in Georgetown’s Domestic Violence Clinic, and as a LGBTQ+ law and policy extern at Family Equality. Rose graduated summa cum laude from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Publications:

• The Law of Assisted Reproductive Technologies for LGBTQ+ Parents: A Recognition Regime of Family Law Built in Opposition to the Regulatory Regime, Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law, and Justice, 2023.
• Wombs for Rent or Bodily Autonomy? Feminist Ambivalence Towards Assisted Reproduction, The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, 2022
• The Law of Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Imposing Heteronormative Family Structures onto Queer Families, Tulane Journal of Law and Sexuality, 2022