M. Elizabeth “Liz” Magill is dean of the Law Center and Executive Vice President of Georgetown University; Paul Regis Dean Leadership Chair, effective Aug. 1, 2026.
She previously served as president of the University of Pennsylvania (2022–2023), where she was a faculty member at Penn Carey Law; as executive vice president and provost of the University of Virginia (2019–2022), the first woman to hold the position; and as dean of Stanford Law School (2012–2019). Before Stanford, Magill spent 15 years on the University of Virginia School of Law faculty, including as vice dean from 2009 to 2012.
An award-winning scholar of administrative and constitutional law, Dean Magill is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Law Institute. She serves on the boards of the National Constitution Center and ITHAKA S+R.
Dean Magill earned a B.A. in history from Yale University and J.D. from the University of Virginia, where she served as articles development editor of the Virginia Law Review. Before law school, she spent four years as a legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Kent Conrad. She clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
