M. Elizabeth Magill

M. Elizabeth (Liz) Magill is a Professor of Law at the Penn Carey Law School, a position she has held since July 2022. Professor Magill was Penn’s 9th President until December 2023. 

Magill came to Penn in 2022 after serving three years as Executive Vice President and Provost at the University of Virginia, the first woman to hold that position. Before that, she was the Richard E. Lang Professor and Dean of Stanford Law School for seven years. Before joining Stanford, she was on the University of Virginia School of Law faculty for 15 years. Earlier in her career, Magill was a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Kent Conrad (ND) and a law clerk to Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She has a BA in History from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Magill is a scholar of administrative and constitutional law, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Law Institute. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, held a fellowship in the Law and Public Affairs Program at Princeton University, was the Thomas Jefferson visiting professor at Downing College, Cambridge University, and is a Visiting Professor of Law at the London School of Economics. Her articles have been published in leading law reviews, and she has won several awards for her scholarly contributions.