M. Elizabeth “Liz” Magill has been named executive vice president and dean of the Georgetown University Law Center. She will begin her new role on August 1.
Magill served as the ninth president of the University of Pennsylvania from the summer of 2022 until her resignation in December 2023. Although she stepped down from her leadership role, she remained a tenured professor at Penn Carey Law.
Prior to her presidency, Magill spent three years as the first woman provost and executive vice president at the University of Virginia. Earlier, she was the Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and dean of Stanford University Law School for seven years. A scholar of administrative law and constitutional structure, Magill has served as a visiting professor or fellow at the London School of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge University, and Princeton University.
“I am honored to join Georgetown Law, one of this country’s great law schools, and the university, an exceptional and distinctive research institution,” Magill said. “As an academic leader, I have great admiration for the Law Center’s faculty, students, and staff’s capacity to excel and contribute across a large range of endeavors connected to law — scholarship, practice, policy, national and global reach, education, and service. The scale and impact of these many contributions is both remarkable and exciting.”
Magill earned her bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University and her juris doctorate from the University of Virginia Law School. After receiving her law degree, Magill clerked for Judge J. Harvey Wilkinson III of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and later for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the U.S. Supreme Court.