Former University of Pennsylvania president named Georgetown Law dean and executive VP
M. Elizabeth Magill, a former president of the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the executive vice president and the dean of the Georgetown University Law Center, effective Aug. 1, the university announced last week.
She replaces Joshua Teitelbaum, who was in those positions on an interim basis since longtime dean William M. Treanor stepped down in 2025.
Magill resigned from the presidency of the University of Pennsylvania in December 2023, days after a contentious congressional hearing on antisemitism. Currently, she remains on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
“Liz is the right person to lead Georgetown Law,” said Robert M. Groves, the school’s interim president, in a press release. “She is a distinguished legal scholar and an accomplished administrator who brings a values-driven vision to Georgetown Law. We are excited to see her take the helm and join our vibrant community.”
“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,” Magill said in the announcement. “The scale and impact of these many contributions is both remarkable and exciting.”
Before her presidency at the University of Pennsylvania, Magill was the first woman to become the executive vice president and provost of the University of Virginia and was the dean of Stanford Law School, according to the press release.
A University of Virginia School of Law graduate, the legal scholar in constitutional and administrative law clerked for the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, according to her biography.
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