Faculty

CONTACT
emagill@virginia.edu
(434) 924-3898
Room WB179F

ASSISTANT
Pennie Newell

SUBJECTS
Administrative law, constitutional law (especially separation of powers and federalism), food and drug law

C.V.

M. Elizabeth Magill

Vice Dean
Joseph Weintraub–Bank of America Distinguished Professor of Law
Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Professor
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1995
B.A., Yale University, 1988

Mary Elizabeth Magill teaches administrative law, constitutional law, food and drug law, and seminars in constitutional structure and administrative law. Her scholarship focuses on administrative law and constitutional law, particularly separation of powers theory and doctrine. Her articles have been published in the law reviews of the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, and Yale University, and several of her articles have received awards. She was a fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University, visited Harvard Law School, and served as the Thomas Jefferson Visiting Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge University.

After completing her B.A. in 1988, Magill served as a senior legislative assistant for energy and natural resources for U.S. Sen. Kent Conrad, a position she held until entering the Law School in 1992. In law school she served as articles development editor of the Virginia Law Review and received several awards, including the Margaret G. Hyde Award, the Jackson and Walker Award for Academic Achievement, the Mary Claiborne and Roy H. Ritter Scholarship, and the Food and Drug Law Institute Scholarship. After graduating in 1995, Magill clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the Fourth Circuit and then for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Following her clerkship with Justice Ginsburg, she joined the faculty.

Scholarship Profile: Making Sense of the Government We Have (Virginia Journal 2006)

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