M. Elizabeth Magill, the former dean of Stanford Law School, provost of the University of Virginia and president of the University of Pennsylvania, has been named the executive vice president and dean of Georgetown Law. Magill will begin her role as the school’s 17th dean on Aug. 1, 2026. Magill, an award-winning legal scholar in constitutional and administrative law, has called law schools her “professional and academic home” ever since she attended the University of Virginia School of Law, gra