Former University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill, who resigned last year amid the fallout of her widely criticized congressional testimony on campus antisemitism, is stepping into new roles at both Harvard Law School and the London School of Economics Law School.
Magill remains a tenured faculty member at Penn’s law school. The news of her new appointments was first reported by The Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn’s student newspaper, after the former president’s curriculum vitae was updated to reflect the new appointments, and has since been confirmed by Inside Higher Ed.
Magill will serve as a visiting senior fellow in Harvard’s Center on the Legal Profession this fall and as visiting professor in the London School of Economics Law School beginning this fall through 2027, according to details in her CV. A source close to the former president told Inside Higher Ed the roles at both institutions are temporary, unpaid and research-oriented.
Magill was one of two presidents to lose her job in the aftermath of the first of three hearings on campus antisemitism related to protests against the war between Israel and Hamas. Magill testified alongside Harvard president Claudine Gay and Massachusetts Institute of Technology president Sally Kornbluth, all of whom came under fire for giving legalistic answers in response to a hypothetical question about calls for the genocide of Jewish people. Gay later stepped down from the Harvard presidency amid allegations of plagiarism but remains a tenured professor.
