M. Elizabeth (Liz) Magill is professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, a position she has held since 2022. Professor Magill was the University of Pennsylvania’s ninth president until December 2023. She came to Penn after serving for three years as the executive vice president and provost at the University of Virginia, the first woman to hold that position. Prior to that, she was the Richard E. Lang Professor and Dean of Stanford Law School for seven years. Before joining Stanford, she was on the faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law for 15 years.
An award-winning scholar of administrative and constitutional law, Ms. Magill is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Law Institute. She has held visiting professorships at fellowships at Harvard Law School, Princeton University, and Downing College Cambridge. Prior to her career in higher education, she worked as a legislative assistant for U.S. Senator Kent Conrad and served as a law clerk for late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
