Liz Magill

M. Elizabeth MagillM. Elizabeth Magill, the former dean of Stanford Law School, provost of the University of Virginia and president of the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the executive vice president and dean of Georgetown Law.

Magill, an award-winning legal scholar in constitutional and administrative law, has called law schools her “professional and academic home” ever since she attended the University of Virginia School of Law, graduating in 1995. After clerking for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Magill has been a law professor at UVA’s School of Law, Stanford Law School and the University of Pennsylvania for the past 29 years. 

She also served as the dean of Stanford Law School from 2012 to 2019. In 2019, she was the first woman to become executive vice president and provost of UVA. In 2022, she assumed the presidency of the University of Pennsylvania, where she continues to be a faculty member at Penn Carey Law. In addition, Magill has served as a visiting professor or fellow at the London School of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge University and Princeton University.

Magill earned her bachelor's degree from Yale University and a law degree from the University of Virginia.