Magill's New Academic Positions
Former University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill, who resigned after her controversial testimony to Congress on antisemitism on campus last year, has been appointed as a visiting senior fellow at Harvard Law School's Center on the Legal Profession for this fall semester, according to her updated curriculum vitae obtained by UPenn's student newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian.
The CV also indicates that Magill will serve as a visiting law professor at the London School of Economics through 2027. According to a source close to Magill, both positions are temporary, unpaid, and research-focused, with no teaching responsibilities. She remains a law professor at UPenn.
Background on the Congressional Hearing
Magill, along with former Harvard President Claudine Gay and MIT President Sally Kornbluth, testified before a House committee in December on the rise of antisemitism on college campuses. All three declined to affirm that calls for the genocide of Jews on their campuses constituted harassment or violated their rules, prompting widespread calls for their resignations.
Magill stepped down as UPenn president shortly after, but retained her tenured faculty position. Gay resigned a month later amid plagiarism allegations and stayed on as faculty. Kornbluth remains MIT president.
Liz Magill, the former disgraced UPenn President, who couldn’t condemn the calls of genocide against Jews, has just been hired by Harvard. This is a slap in the face to Jewish students. She will join her friend Claudine Gay as two equally incompetent ‘scholars.’
Reactions and Context
The announcement drew condemnation from Shabbos Kestenbaum, a Harvard graduate and one of the Jewish students who sued UPenn in January for failing to combat antisemitism. FOX Business has reached out to representatives for Magill at UPenn, as well as Harvard and the London School of Economics, for comment.
