Dear Members of the Georgetown University Community,
It is with great pleasure that I announce the appointment of M. Elizabeth (Liz) Magill, J.D., as the next executive vice president and dean of Georgetown University Law Center, with her term beginning August 1, 2026.
An accomplished legal scholar and academic administrator, she brings a rare combination of leadership and experience. She has led some of our nation’s most elite law schools and universities, including as the dean of Stanford Law School, as executive vice president and provost of the University of Virginia, and most recently as the president of the University of Pennsylvania, where she continues to serve as a faculty member at Penn Carey Law.
She has been widely recognized for her scholarship on constitutional and administrative law, clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and served as a visiting faculty or fellow at the London School of Economics Law School, Harvard Law School, Cambridge University and Princeton University. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Law Institute.
Throughout our extensive search process, Professor Magill demonstrated a deep understanding of both the challenges facing legal higher education and the distinctive opportunities for Georgetown Law: with our identity as a Catholic and Jesuit institution, with the development of our Capitol Campus, and with Georgetown’s Law tradition of excellence, as one of the oldest and largest law schools in the country.
The daughter of a former federal judge nominated by President Ronald Reagan and graduate of Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and Georgetown Law, and as the sibling of three Georgetown graduates, she has a rich connection to Georgetown and to the values of engagement, inclusion, and dialogue that define a Georgetown education.
I wish to thank interim executive vice president and dean Joshua Teitelbaum, Ph.D., J.D., David Belding Professor of Law, for his leadership of Georgetown Law during this period of transition. I am also grateful to search committee chair Professor Eloise Pasachoff, J.D., Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and the entire search committee for their dedication in conducting a comprehensive, nationwide search for the new leader of our Law Center.
Please join me in welcoming Professor Magill to Georgetown. We look forward to her leadership at Georgetown Law and her contributions to Georgetown in the years ahead.
Sincerely,
Robert M. Groves
Interim President