"Magill stepped down from her job at Penn in late 2023 after a disastrous performance at a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism, in which she and other presidents equivocated when presented with a hypothetical question about whether calls for the death of Jewish students would amount to bullying and harassment under university policies. Magill and others offered legalistic answers that prompted bipartisan fury and led her to step down several days later."
"I am honored to join Georgetown Law, one of this country's great law schools, and the university, an exceptional and distinctive research institution. As an academic leader, 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. The scale and impact of these many contributions is both remarkable and exciting."
Liz Magill has been named executive vice president and dean of Georgetown Law, beginning in August. Magill resigned as president of the University of Pennsylvania in late 2023 after a widely criticized congressional hearing on campus antisemitism where her responses were characterized as equivocal and legalistic, prompting bipartisan outrage. Magill previously served as dean of Stanford Law School (2012–2019), provost at the University of Virginia until 2022, and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1995–96. More recently she held visiting positions at Harvard and the London School of Economics. Reactions to the Georgetown hire were mixed, with some legal scholars supportive and some conservative critics blasting the decision.
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